Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 256 GiB
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 256 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

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

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.

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