StateSet Sandbox vs Thunder Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
StateSet Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Max session
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Isolation
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
StateSet Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 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.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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