Mosaic Sandbox vs Phonebox

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Phonebox
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Phonebox: Up to 5
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK
Phonebox: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain, Claude Code or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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