LangSmith Sandboxes vs Modal
LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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LangSmith Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
LangSmith Sandboxes
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Isolation
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
LangSmith Sandboxeslangchain
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
LangSmith Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.189 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $30 against $8.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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