AgentBay vs CreateOS Sandbox

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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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 $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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