BoxLite Cloud vs Mosaic Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Mosaic Sandbox:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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