Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions runs full VMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Up to 600
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Full VM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Integrations
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: LangChain
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessionsazure
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Up to 600
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Full VM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: LangChain
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
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