boxd vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- No limit
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- 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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Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: No limit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boxd: After 240 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Claude Code, MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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