CreateOS Sandbox vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CreateOS Sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 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, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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