AgentBay vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

AgentBay
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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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 $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

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