AgentBay vs Sailboxes

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Sailboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Sailboxes: Full VM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Sailboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Sailboxes: $0.124

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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.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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