Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.217 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

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