Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs BoxLite Cloud

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. BoxLite Cloud 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

BoxLite Cloud

Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $100 credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site BoxLite Cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; BoxLite Cloud: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

BoxLite Clouddocs.boxlite.ai/cloud/pricingdocs.boxlite.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

BoxLite Cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

BoxLite Cloud fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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