AgentBay vs Prime Sandboxes

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

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

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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