Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Prime Sandboxes

Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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

Prime Sandboxes

Isolated microVM sandboxes for AI agents and RL.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: No limit

Visit site Prime Sandboxes profile

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Prime Sandboxes

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

Prime Sandboxesdocs.primeintellect.ai/sandboxes/overviewdocs.primeintellect.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Prime Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You need pause and resume.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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