Caged vs Mosaic Sandbox

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Caged

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Max session
4 hours

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.

Caged
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Caged: Free
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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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.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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