Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Namespace Devboxes

Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Namespace Devboxes
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Namespace Devboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

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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.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need SOC 2.

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