Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes costs $0.0864 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Isolated microVM sandboxes that start on demand.

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

Visit site Azure Container Apps Sandboxes profile

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Azure Container Apps Sandboxessandboxes.azure.com/docs/sandboxes/costsandboxes.azure.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.108
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.216
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.432

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