MIOSA vs Mosaic Sandbox

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

MIOSA
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
MIOSA: $0.04536
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.01458
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
MIOSA: $500 / month
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
MIOSA: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
MIOSA: 24 hours
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
MIOSA: Up to 250
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
MIOSA: MCP
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
MIOSA: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

MIOSA
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
MIOSA: $0.075
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
MIOSA: $0.149
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: $0.298
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain, Claude Code or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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