CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.246 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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