LangSmith Sandboxes vs Smol Machines

LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Smol Machines runs microVMs.

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LangSmith Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Credit of 8 LSU every month
Max session
Not listed

Smol Machines

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

LangSmith Sandboxes
Smol Machines
vCPU, per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Billing
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Smol Machines: MicroVM
Snapshots
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Smol Machines: No
SDKs
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Pay as you go
Billing
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Smol Machines: Not listed
Largest sandbox
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Smol Machines: MicroVM
GPU
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: No
Snapshots
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Smol Machines: No
Pause and resume
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Smol Machines:

Developer

SDKs
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Integrations
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain
Smol Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
BYOC
LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan
Smol Machines: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

LangSmith Sandboxes
Smol Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
Smol Machines: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
Smol Machines: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378
Smol Machines: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

LangSmith Sandboxes fits when

  • You use LangChain.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

Smol Machines fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.189 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $8.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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