Mosaic Sandbox vs Northflank Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
Northflank Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.067 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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