Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs CreateOS Sandbox

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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

CreateOS Sandbox

Hosted Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session: No limit

Visit site CreateOS Sandbox profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

CreateOS Sandbox

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

CreateOS Sandboxcreateos.sh/pricing/sandboxcreateos.sh

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

CreateOS Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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Which one fits

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CreateOS Sandbox fits when

You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

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