Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Alibaba Cloud runs each agent sandbox in its own VM, works with the E2B SDK, hibernates idle sandboxes without CPU charges and bills per second. For teams that want E2B-style sandboxes at the lowest list rate, or a Kubernetes API.
- 2 vCPU + 4 GiB
- $0.055/hr 0.33x E2B
- Isolation
- VM
- Pause / resume
- Yes
- Max session
- not published
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Before you buy
Alibaba labels its Agent Sandbox rates reference prices. The rate shown is the Economy class, where performance may fluctuate; the recommended Default class is $0.0179 per vCPU-hour and $0.0089 per GiB-hour. Source, seen 9 Nov 2026.
Priced next to Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
All providers against E2B| Provider | 2 vCPU + 4 GiB$/hr | vs E2B | Relative cost | Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox | $0.055 (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview) | 0.33x | VM | |
| Northflank Sandboxes | $0.067 (source: Northflank Pricing) | 0.40x | Cloud Hypervisor microVM | |
| Prime Intellect Sandboxes | $0.090 (source: Prime Intellect Sandboxes docs) | 0.54x | microVM |
Every field
Source on each value- Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.
- VM (source: What is Agent Sandbox)
- Other isolation options Alternative runtimes the vendor offers besides the default (e.g. VM runtime, gVisor for GPU).
- Flash Edition (API, E2B SDK) or Container Edition (Kubernetes API) (source: What is Agent Sandbox)
- Deployment Managed cloud service, self-hosted software, or both.
- managed (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- Billing basis What the meter counts: wall-clock allocated resources, active CPU only, requests/plan quota, session-hours, or free software.
- wall clock (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- vCPU price $/vCPU-hr Published on-demand CPU rate normalised to USD per vCPU-hour (per-second rates multiplied by 3,600; per-core rates divided by vCPUs per core where the vendor defines it). Lowest public tier, default region.
- $0.0137 (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- Memory price $/GiB-hr Published memory rate normalised to USD per GiB-hour (GB treated as GiB where the vendor does not distinguish). 0 means the vendor states memory is free.
- $0.0069 (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- Sandbox from $/sandbox-hr Smallest published per-sandbox hourly price, where the vendor publishes one.
- Not published
- Paid plan from $/mo Cheapest paid platform plan fee (before usage).
- Not published
- Free tier A free plan, free monthly allowance or sign-up credit exists.
- Not published
- Free tier detail What the free tier or credit includes, as published.
- Not published
- Cold start ms Vendor-published create/boot time in milliseconds. Only filled when the vendor publishes a number; see startup_claim for context (percentile, conditions).
- Not published
- Resume time ms Vendor-published resume-from-pause/standby/snapshot time in milliseconds.
- Not published
- Startup claim The vendor's startup/resume wording with conditions, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- "Millisecond-level startup"; hibernated sandboxes resume "within seconds" (no figure published) (source: What is Agent Sandbox)
- Max session length Longest single sandbox session by plan, as published.
- Not published
- Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).
- Yes (source: What is Agent Sandbox)
- Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.
- Yes (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- Memory state kept Pause/hibernate preserves running memory state, not only the filesystem.
- Not published
- Fork / branch A running or snapshotted sandbox can be cloned into new sandboxes.
- Not published
- GPU GPU sandboxes are offered.
- Not published
- Self-host Can run on your own hardware or cluster (open source or licensed).
- Not published
- BYOC / VPC Vendor-managed deployment inside your own cloud account.
- Not published
- Open source Core sandbox runtime is published under an open-source licence.
- Not published
- Licence Open-source licence of the runtime, if any.
- Not published
- SDKs / languages Official SDK languages (or supported execution languages where noted).
- E2B SDK compatible; Kubernetes API (Container Edition) (source: What is Agent Sandbox)
- Regions Published regions or region count.
- Chinese mainland; Hong Kong and regions outside China (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview)
- Max vCPU per sandbox vCPU Largest published vCPU count per sandbox on any self-serve or enterprise plan.
- Not published
- Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.
- Not published
- Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.
- Not published
- SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.
- Not published
- HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).
- Not published
- Pricing from
- $0.0137 per vCPU-hour
- Pricing as published
- International regions, Economy QoS (performance may fluctuate): $0.00000381/vCPU-s and $0.00000191/GiB-s, x3,600 = $0.013716/vCPU-h and $0.006876/GiB-h. Default QoS (recommended) $0.017856 and $0.008928; Performance (Flash only) $0.027324 and $0.013896. Chinese mainland Economy $0.00936 and $0.004608. Hibernated sandboxes pay no vCPU; 15 GiB rootfs free while active. Alibaba labels these reference prices. Pricing checked 2026-11-09.
Sources
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview accessed 2026-11-09
- What is Agent Sandbox accessed 2026-11-09
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