Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs BoxCompute

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 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

BoxCompute

Linux VM sandboxes for AI agents, hosted in Malaysia.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session: 42 hours

Visit site BoxCompute profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

BoxCompute

Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; BoxCompute: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

BoxComputeboxcompute.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Included
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; BoxCompute: Not listed
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; BoxCompute: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; BoxCompute: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: 42 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; BoxCompute: Full VM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; BoxCompute: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; BoxCompute: Not listed
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; BoxCompute:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

BoxCompute

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxCompute: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need snapshots.

BoxCompute fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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