CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Mosaic Sandbox

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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