Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs StateSet Sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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