boxes.dev vs Mosaic Sandbox

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boxes.dev
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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