Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Morph

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Morph costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Morph runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Runs your AI agent code on Azure, with each session in its own microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

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Morph

Snapshot, branch and restore whole machines.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

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What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Morph

vCPU, per hour: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994; Morph: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118; Morph: Included
Billing: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second; Morph: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000; Morph: Up to 128
Isolation: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM; Morph: Full VM
Integrations: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Morph: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/foundry-agent-serviceazure.microsoft.com

Morphcloud.morph.so/web/subscribecloud.morph.so

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994; Morph: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118; Morph: Included
Storage: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed
Free tier: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed
Paid plan from: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go; Morph: Pay as you go
Billing: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second; Morph: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed
Idle stop: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes; Morph: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; Morph: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000; Morph: Up to 128

Platform

Isolation: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM; Morph: Full VM
GPU: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed
Snapshots: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph:
Pause and resume: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:; Morph:

Developer

SDKs: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Morph: Claude Code

Trust

License: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed
BYOC: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed; Morph: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Morph

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123; Morph: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246; Morph: $0.100
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492; Morph: $0.200

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Morph fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You use Claude Code.
You want the lower list price: $0.100 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.

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