Celesto Cloud vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
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.

Celesto Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
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
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.

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