Blaxel vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month. Images $0.045 per GB per month.
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- You use Claude Code or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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