Mosaic Sandbox vs Sandbox as a Service

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Sandbox as a Service

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
Sandbox as a Service: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Sandbox as a Service: Included
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
Sandbox as a Service:
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
Sandbox as a Service: MCP

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Sandbox as a Service: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Sandbox as a Service: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

Sandbox as a Service fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

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