Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Railway Sandboxes

Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolated Linux VMs you create on demand and destroy.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Railway Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Railway Sandboxes

Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Railway Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Railway Sandboxesrailway.com/pricingrailway.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Railway Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need pause and resume.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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