Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
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.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 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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