Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Runs your AI agent code on Azure, with each session in its own microVM.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs each sandbox in a microVM. It costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and $0.0118 per GiB-hour, billed per second.
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/agent-service
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/concepts/hosted-agents
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/foundry-agent-service
Updated
$0.0994
vCPU per hour
$0.0118
RAM per GiB-hour
Not listed
Max session
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Largest sandbox
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents specifications
List prices and limits for Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Pricing
azure- vCPU per hour
- $0.0994
- RAM per GiB-hour
- $0.0118
- Storage
- Not listed
- Billing
- Per second
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Pay as you go
Limits
learn- Max session
- Not listed
- Idle stop
- After 15 minutesDefault, set from 2 minutes to 4 hours per agent version
- Sandbox size
- 0.5 vCPU · 1 GiB, 1 vCPU · 2 GiB, 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Default size
- Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Up to 2,000Default per subscription in 7 regions, 1,000 in other regions. Raised by support request
- Storage
- Up to 20 GiB per session at 1 vCPU or more, less at 0.5 vCPU. About 20% is kept for the system
Platform
learn- Isolation
- MicroVM
- GPU
- Not listed
- Snapshots
- Not listed
- Pause and resume
- An idle session keeps $HOME and uploaded files. Deleted after 30 days without use
- Desktop
- Not listed
- Regions
- 31Azure regions in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa
Developer
learn- SDKs
- Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Hourly cost
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