Mosaic Sandbox vs tama

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
tama
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
tama: Full VM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
tama: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
tama: Not listed
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
tama: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
tama: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
tama: $0.091

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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 or MCP.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.050 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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