Sailboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes
Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Sailboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Isolation
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Sailboxes: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Sailboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Sailboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sailboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.124
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sailboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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