Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Shellbox

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Shellbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Shellbox
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Shellbox: $0.01
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Shellbox: Included
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Shellbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Up to 1,000
Shellbox: Up to 16
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: LangChain
Shellbox: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Shellbox: $0.01
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Shellbox: Included
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Shellbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Shellbox: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: After 2 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Up to 1,000
Shellbox: Up to 16

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Python
Shellbox: Not listed
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: LangChain
Shellbox: Claude Code

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Shellbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Shellbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.108
Shellbox: $0.010
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.217
Shellbox: $0.020
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.434
Shellbox: $0.040

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter fits when

  • 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.

Shellbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.020 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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