Thunder Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Thunder Sandboxes
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Billing
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Thunder Sandboxes:
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Thunder Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Upstash Box: $0.400

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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 want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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