Thunder Sandboxes vs Zipbox
Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Thunder Sandboxes
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Billing
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
- SDKs
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Thunder Sandboxes
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
Zipbox fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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