LangSmith Sandboxes vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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LangSmith Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Credit of 8 LSU every month
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.

LangSmith Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
vCPU, per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Idle stop
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isolation
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
SDKs
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain, 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
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
LangSmith Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain, MCP
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

LangSmith Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

LangSmith Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.189 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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