Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Oblien Workspace
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Oblien Workspace
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free tier, no credit card
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Oblien Workspace
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Oblien Workspace: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Oblien Workspace: $0.03
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Oblien Workspace: $0.008
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: No limit
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: No
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Oblien Workspace:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Oblien Workspace: MCP
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Oblien Workspace
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Oblien Workspace: $0.046
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Oblien Workspace: $0.092
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Oblien Workspace: $0.184
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 the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Oblien Workspace fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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