Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs

DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated Oct 15, 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

DigitalOcean MicroVMs

Lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site DigitalOcean MicroVMs profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

DigitalOcean MicroVMs

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 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

DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs.digitalocean.com/products/microvms/details/pricingdocs.digitalocean.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

DigitalOcean MicroVMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156

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