Beam Sandboxes vs Mosaic Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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