HopX vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
HopX
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- HopX: $0.0504
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- HopX: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Isolation
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- SDKs
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- HopX: MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- HopX: $0.0504
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- HopX: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- HopX: $200 credit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- HopX: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- HopX: No limit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- HopX:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- HopX:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- HopX: MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- HopX: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
HopX
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- HopX: $0.083
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- HopX: $0.166
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- HopX: $0.331
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
HopX fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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