Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Prime Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
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, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.
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