CreateOS Sandbox vs Mosaic Sandbox

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CreateOS Sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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