Agent Sandbox vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Agent Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$10 credit with a Google sign-in
Max session
Not listed

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Agent Sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent Sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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