Mosaic Sandbox vs Thunder Sandboxes

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Thunder Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Mosaic Sandbox
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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