BoxLite Cloud vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

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.

BoxLite Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: 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

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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