Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs MIOSA

MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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

MIOSA

Cloud sandboxes and persistent computers that AI agents use to build and run software.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: $10 credit, one time
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site MIOSA profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

MIOSA

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; MIOSA: $500 / month
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; MIOSA: 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

MIOSAmiosa.ai/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

MIOSA

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; MIOSA: $0.298

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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.

MIOSA fits when

You use MCP.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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