HopX vs Mosaic Sandbox

HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated

HopX

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

HopX
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
HopX: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
SDKs
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
HopX: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
HopX: $0.0504
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
HopX: $0.0162
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
HopX: $200 credit
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
HopX: Pay as you go
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
HopX: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
HopX: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
HopX: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
HopX: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

HopX
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
HopX: $0.083
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
HopX: $0.166
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
HopX: $0.331
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

HopX fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related