AgentBay vs Shardflux

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Shardflux

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
Shardflux
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Shardflux:
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Shardflux:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Shardflux:

Developer

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

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Shardflux: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Shardflux: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Shardflux
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Shardflux: $0.070
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Shardflux: $0.140
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Shardflux: $0.280

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Shardflux fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

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