Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

Updated Oct 15, 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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolated cloud Linux machines that AI agents control over an HTTP API.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Sendblue Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Sendblue Sandboxes

Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Sendblue Sandboxessendblue.com/sandboxessendblue.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Sendblue Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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

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