Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Thunder Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Thunder 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
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker 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
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
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.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
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