AgentBay vs Upstash Box

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Upstash Box runs containers.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

AgentBay
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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