AgentBay vs Lizard Sandboxes

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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