Thunder Sandboxes vs Watasu

Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs. Watasu limits a session to 24 hours.

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Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Thunder Sandboxes
Watasu
Storage
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Watasu: Not listed
GPU
Thunder Sandboxes:
Watasu: Not listed
Snapshots
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu:
Pause and resume
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu:

Developer

SDKs
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Watasu: Not listed
Integrations
Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Watasu: Not listed

Trust

License
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
BYOC
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Thunder Sandboxes
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Watasu: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use MCP.

Watasu fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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