Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Northflank Sandboxes

Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Northflank Sandboxes:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Northflank Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Northflank Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Northflank Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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