Shellbox vs Thunder Sandboxes
Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Shellbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Shellbox: $0.01
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Shellbox: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Shellbox: No limit
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Shellbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Shellbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Shellbox: Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Shellbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.010
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.020
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: $0.040
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Shellbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 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 use MCP.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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