Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Prized Sandboxes

Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 22, 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

Prized Sandboxes

Linux microVMs in beta that your code creates, runs commands in, pauses, forks and deletes.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: $30 credit, one time
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Prized Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Prized Sandboxes

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

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

Prized Sandboxesprized.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Prized Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

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