Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Superserve

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Superserve: Free
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Superserve: Per second
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Superserve: No limit
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Superserve: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Superserve: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Superserve: Free
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: $5 to start, plus $95 when you add billing
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Superserve: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Superserve: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Superserve:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
Superserve:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account. Enterprise plan.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Superserve fits when

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

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