Depot Sandboxes vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Depot Sandboxes costs $0.18 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Depot Sandboxes runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Depot Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial, no credit card
- Max session
- 24 hours
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.
Depot Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Depot Sandboxes: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Paid plan from
- Depot Sandboxes: $20 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Pause and resume
- Depot Sandboxes: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- SDKs
- Depot Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Depot 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
Depot Sandboxesdepot
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.18
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Depot Sandboxes: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Depot Sandboxes: 7-day free trial, no credit card
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Depot Sandboxes: $20 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Depot Sandboxes: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Depot Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Depot Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Depot Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Depot Sandboxes: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Depot Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Depot Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Depot Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Depot Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.180
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.360
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Depot Sandboxes: $0.720
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Depot Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.246 against $0.360 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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