Mosaic Sandbox vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: No
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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