Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs AWS Lambda MicroVMs

AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

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

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

AWS Lambda MicroVMs

Serverless microVMs on AWS that suspend when idle.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 8 hours

Visit site AWS Lambda MicroVMs profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

AWS Lambda MicroVMs

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws.amazon.com/lambda/pricingaws.amazon.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; AWS Lambda MicroVMs:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

AWS Lambda MicroVMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504

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