Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Containarium Cloud

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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

Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

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

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Containarium Cloud

Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/llms.txtcontainarium.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Containarium Cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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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.
You need pause and resume.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Containarium Cloud fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
You use MCP or Claude Code.
You need ISO 27001.

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