Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs PandaStack Sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. PandaStack Sandbox 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
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota (1 GiB on Free, 100 GiB on Pro, 2.5 TiB on Team). Hibernated state is free for now
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.173 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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