Buddy Sandboxes vs Mosaic Sandbox

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

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.

Buddy Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: No
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.086 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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