Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Runloop

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.

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

Runloop

Devboxes built for coding agents.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $50 credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Runloop profile

What is different

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vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Runloop: $0.0252
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Runloop: Per second
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Runloop: $0.0252
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes; Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Runloop: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Runloop: Not listed
BYOC: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Runloop

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108; Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217; Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434; Runloop: $0.634

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

You use the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
You want the lower list price: $0.217 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Runloop fits when

You use Claude Code.
You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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