AgentBay vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

What is different

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

AgentBay
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 8 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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