Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Novita Sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 3 hours.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Novita Sandbox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Novita Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Novita Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Novita Sandboxdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit after a setup survey, no card
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Novita Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Novita Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Novita Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Novita Sandbox: $0.058
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Novita Sandbox: $0.117
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Novita Sandbox: $0.233
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or MCP.
Novita Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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