Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Upstash Box

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Upstash Box 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

Upstash Box

Isolated cloud containers that give AI agents a computer.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Upstash Box profile

What is different

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

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Upstash Box

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Upstash Box: Included
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Idle stop: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes; Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM; Upstash Box: Container
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Upstash Boxupstash.com/pricing/boxupstash.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Upstash Box: Included
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes; Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript; Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Upstash Box

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108; Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217; Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434; Upstash Box: $0.400

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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 or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.

Upstash Box fits when

You use the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.
You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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