Agent Sandbox vs Sandbox as a Service
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Agent Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Max session
- Not listed
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Agent Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Agent Sandboxagentsandbox
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Agent Sandbox
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Agent Sandbox fits when
- You want the larger free credit: $10 against $5.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You need snapshots.
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