AgentBay vs Runloop

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Runloop runs microVMs.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Runloop

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
Runloop
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Runloop: $50 credit
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Runloop: MicroVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Runloop: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Runloop
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Runloop: $0.634

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Runloop fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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