Open-source Microsoft Foundry hosted agents alternatives
10 open-source sandbox providers you can use instead of Microsoft Foundry hosted agents. Celesto Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.030 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Beam Sandboxes offers GPUs.
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents, for reference
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsRuns your AI agent code on Azure, with each session in its own microVM.
IsolationMicroVM
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.246 / hr
Free tierNot listed
Max sessionNot listed
10 open-source alternatives to Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
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$0.030per hour
Everstack
Open-source platform that runs isolated sandboxes for AI agents.DesktopLower vCPU priceSnapshots and templates$0.133per hour
BoxLite Cloud
Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisabled on Cloud$0.158per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMLower vCPU priceDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxes$0.165per hour
Smol Machines
Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.Bills active CPU onlyMicroVMLower vCPU price$0.165per hour
E2B
Open-source sandbox platform that gives AI agents isolated machines.DesktopFirecrackerLower vCPU price$0.166per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.Bills active CPU onlyNo session limitFirecracker$0.173per hour
Beam Sandboxes
Isolated, secure environments for running untrusted code at scale.GPUNo session limitContainer$0.227per hour
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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents first, then the 10 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.099
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.015
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Not listed
- vCPU / hr
- $0.067
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.068
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- None
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