Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox costs $0.017856 per vCPU-hour and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents, with E2B SDK support.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Hosts AI agents on AWS and runs each user session in its own microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 8 hours

Visit site Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: 24 hours; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/agent-sandbox/product-overview/billing-overviewalibabacloud.com

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtimeaws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricingaws.amazon.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: 24 hours; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Python, TypeScript; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.036; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.071; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.143; Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

A session must run longer than 8 hours.
You want the lower list price: $0.071 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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