inis.run vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. inis.run runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
24 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.

inis.run
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, 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
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
inis.run: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
inis.run: Pay as you go
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
inis.run: 24 hours
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
inis.run: Up to 10
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
inis.run: Full VM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
inis.run: No
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
inis.run:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
inis.run:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

inis.run
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
inis.run: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

inis.run fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.

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