Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Buddy Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Buddy Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Python
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: LangChain
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Up to 1,000
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Python
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: LangChain
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Buddy Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.108
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.217
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.434
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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