AgentBay vs BoxCompute

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

What is different

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

AgentBay
BoxCompute
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
BoxCompute: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
BoxCompute: Included
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
BoxCompute: Full VM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
BoxCompute: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
BoxCompute: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
BoxCompute: Not listed
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
BoxCompute: Not listed
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
BoxCompute: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
BoxCompute: Full VM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
BoxCompute: Not listed

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
BoxCompute
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
BoxCompute: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
BoxCompute: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
BoxCompute: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB.

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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