AgentBay vs Runtime

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Runtime
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime: No
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Runtime: $0.160

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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