AgentBay vs Dedalus Machines

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
Dedalus Machines
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Dedalus Machines: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Dedalus Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Dedalus Machines: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Dedalus Machines 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.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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