Containarium Cloud vs Mosaic Sandbox

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.050 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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