Mosaic Sandbox vs Prime Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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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 $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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