Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Namespace Devboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Namespace Devboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Namespace Devboxesnamespace
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Namespace Devboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Namespace Devboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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