Sandbox0 vs Thunder Sandboxes

Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Sandbox0
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Sandbox0: Free
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sandbox0: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sandbox0: $0.015
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Sandbox0: Free
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Sandbox0: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Sandbox0: Memory only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Sandbox0: No limit
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Sandbox0: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sandbox0: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Sandbox0: gVisor
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Sandbox0: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Sandbox0:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Sandbox0:
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Sandbox0: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sandbox0
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.030
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.060
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sandbox0: $0.120
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 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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