Microsoft Foundry hosted agents vs Unikraft Cloud

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs. Unikraft Cloud runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Unikraft Cloud

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Hobby plan, free forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Unikraft Cloud
Paid plan from
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24
Isolation
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
Unikraft Cloud: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Storage
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Billing
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24

Platform

Isolation
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
Unikraft Cloud: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud:
Snapshots
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud:
Pause and resume
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Unikraft Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
BYOC
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Unikraft Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which 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, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Unikraft Cloud fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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