Sendblue Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Sendblue Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Sendblue Sandboxes: No
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: MCP

Trust

License
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Sendblue Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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