AgentBay vs Freestyle VMs
AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
Updated
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AgentBay
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- AgentBay: $0.027
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AgentBay: $0.0113
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AgentBay: Free Basic plan
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- AgentBay: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Largest sandbox
- AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AgentBay: Up to 200
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Isolation
- AgentBay: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- SDKs
- AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- AgentBay: MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AgentBay: $0.027
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AgentBay: $0.0113
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AgentBay: Free Basic plan
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- AgentBay: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- AgentBay: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AgentBay: Up to 200
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- AgentBay: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- AgentBay: MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- AgentBay: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AgentBay
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.050
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.099
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AgentBay: $0.198
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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