microsandbox cloud vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a 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.
microsandbox cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: 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
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- microsandbox cloud:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
microsandbox cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
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