Mosaic Sandbox vs Upstash Box

Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Mosaic Sandbox
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Upstash Box: $0.10
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Mosaic Sandbox:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Mosaic Sandbox:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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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 MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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