exe.dev vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. exe.dev runs full VMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

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.

exe.dev
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
vCPU, per hour
exe.dev: $0.0525
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
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
exe.dev: $0.0525
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
exe.dev: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
exe.dev: $15 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
exe.dev: Full VM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
exe.dev: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
exe.dev: Enterprise plan
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

exe.dev
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
exe.dev: $0.053
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
exe.dev: $0.105
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: $0.210
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.

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