AgentBay vs Phonebox

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

AgentBay
Phonebox
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Phonebox: Up to 5
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Phonebox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Phonebox: Not listed
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Phonebox fits when

  • You need pause and resume.

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