Mosaic Sandbox vs Railway Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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