Mosaic Sandbox vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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