LangSmith Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs 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
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
LangSmith Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
LangSmith Sandboxeslangchain
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- LangSmith Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 larger free credit: $8 against $5.
- You need pause and resume.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.189 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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