Mosaic Sandbox vs OpenPond Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

OpenPond Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
OpenPond Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain, MCP, Claude Code or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

OpenPond Sandboxes fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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