EQVPS Sandboxes vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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EQVPS Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $1 sandbox credit, one time
- Max session
- 720 hours
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.
EQVPS Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Idle stop
- EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Integrations
- EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
EQVPS Sandboxeseqvps
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- EQVPS Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
EQVPS Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
EQVPS Sandboxes fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 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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