Shardflux vs Thunder Sandboxes
Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
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.
Shardflux
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Shardflux: $0.04
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- SDKs
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Shardflux: $0.04
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Shardflux:
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Shardflux:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Shardflux:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Trust
- License
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Shardflux
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.070
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.140
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: $0.280
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shardflux fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.140 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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