Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Daytona

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Hosts AI agents on AWS and runs each user session in its own microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 8 hours

Visit site Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime profile

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: $200 free compute
Max session: No limit

Visit site Daytona profile

What is different

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

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Daytona

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Daytona: Per second
Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Daytona: No limit
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
SDKs: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtimeaws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricingaws.amazon.com

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Daytona: $200 free compute
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Daytona: Per second

Limits

Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Daytona: No limit
Idle stop: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes; Daytona: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Daytona: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
GPU: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Daytona:
Snapshots: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Daytona:
Pause and resume: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:; Daytona:

Developer

SDKs: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Daytona: Not listed
BYOC: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Daytona: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Daytona

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108; Daytona: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217; Daytona: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434; Daytona: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
A session must run longer than 8 hours.
You use the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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