Sandbox as a Service vs Thunder Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
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.
Sandbox as a Service
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Sandbox as a Service
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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