Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Perplexity Sandbox

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

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

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolated Linux containers that run Python and bash code inside a Perplexity Agent API request.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Perplexity Sandbox profile

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM; Perplexity Sandbox: Container

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

Perplexity Sandboxdocs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricingdocs.perplexity.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript; Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Perplexity Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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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.
You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
You need pause and resume.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Perplexity Sandbox fits when

You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

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