Thunder Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Thunder Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Billing
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- SDKs
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
- 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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