Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Cloudflare Sandbox

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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