Mosaic Sandbox vs PandaStack Sandbox

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

PandaStack Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5.40 usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
PandaStack Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
PandaStack Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
PandaStack Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346

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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 want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

PandaStack Sandbox fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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