Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs microsandbox cloud

microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. microsandbox 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

microsandbox cloud

Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session: Not listed

Visit site microsandbox cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

microsandbox cloud

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; microsandbox 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

microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox.dev/pricingmicrosandbox.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

microsandbox cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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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.

microsandbox cloud fits when

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

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