Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox costs $0.017856 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents, with E2B SDK support.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/agent-sandbox/product-overview/billing-overviewalibabacloud.com

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.017856; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.008928; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.00025308 per GiB-hour after 15 free GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: 24 hours; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Up to 300; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Python, TypeScript; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.036; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.071; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: $0.143; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want the lower list price: $0.071 against $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You use MCP or Claude Code.
You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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