AgentBay vs Zipbox

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Zipbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Zipbox
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Zipbox: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Zipbox: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Zipbox: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Zipbox: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Zipbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Zipbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Zipbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Zipbox: $0.027

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You need a sandbox larger than 6 vCPU · 16 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Zipbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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