boxd vs Mosaic Sandbox

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxd
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
boxd: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boxd: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxd:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

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

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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