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Sandboxed Code Execution

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active marketmarket pulse 60/100commercial money present1 new builders in 30d58 listings
basis: all observed monthly plans · commercial-form-v2
Agents · median
$150/mo
$49–$250 middle half · 4 providers
MCP servers · median
$10/mo
3 providers
15×

Agents cost 15× MCPs across all tiers — median $150 vs $10. Two different markets; a blended figure would mislead either buyer.

All plansAgents vs MCPs

each dot = one provider · log scale
Agents $150
agentshell · $10
trycase · $49
agentshell · $42
E2b 2 · $150
trycase · $179
ardent · $250
trycase · $599
MCP servers $10
rustunnel · $3
codeinterpreter · $10
containers · $10
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AgentsMCP serversshaded = middle half · line = median

All plans

10 priced
Providervs its cohort medianMonthly
rustunnelmcp
$3 below
agentshellagent
$10 below
codeinterpretermcp
$10 ~median
containersmcp
$10 ~median
agentshellagent
$42 below
trycaseagent
$49 below
E2b 2agent
$150 ~median
trycaseagent
$179 above
ardentagent
$250 above
trycaseagent
$599 above
Position is relative to the provider's own delivery-type median at this tier — never a blended one.
This page is the human view of the MCP answer. The same structured `niche_report` / `price_benchmark` an agent receives over MCP or REST.
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            "provider": "ardent",
            "usd": 250
          },
          {
            "provider": "trycase",
            "usd": 599
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "pricing_coverage": {
      "listings_with_price_capture": 59,
      "listings_with_observed_public_price": 16,
      "normalized_observations": 13,
      "comparable_providers": 8,
      "strict_cohorts": 3,
      "exclusion_reasons": {
        "ambiguous_cadence": 7,
        "usage_not_monthly": 26,
        "free_or_zero": 2
      }
    },
    "pricing_note": "Provider-deduped, FX-normalized monthly medians, separated by buyer tier AND billing unit (flat/per_seat/per_user/per_agent) — incompatible units are never blended. Ranges (p25/p75) only at >=5 providers; data_confidence is provider-count-weighted. Usage-metered, promo, range, one-time and ambiguous-cadence plans are excluded.",
    "pricing_excluded_observations": {
      "ambiguous_cadence": 7,
      "usage_not_monthly": 26,
      "free_or_zero": 2
    },
    "billing_mix": {
      "free": 4,
      "freemium": 7,
      "usage": 4,
      "contact_sales": 1
    },
    "free_tier_share": 0.69,
    "top_providers": [
      {
        "agent_id": "amika",
        "name": "Amika",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "freemium",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": 30,
          "monthly_usd": 30,
          "headline": "Free tier, then from $30/mo",
          "summary": "Free tier, then from $30/mo. Amika offers a permanent free plan, paid Developer and Team subscriptions at $30 and $100 per user per month, custom Enterprise pricing, and separate sandbox resource usage rates."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "celesto",
        "name": "Celesto",
        "price": {
          "observed": false,
          "billing": "not_found",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "No public price found",
          "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
        },
        "observed": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "cua_ai",
        "name": "Cua Ai",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "contact_sales",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Contact sales (no public price)",
          "summary": "Cua offers a local open-source sandbox framework, while dedicated hosted, BYOC, or on-prem fleets are available by request."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "daytona_io",
        "name": "Daytona.io",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "usage",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Paid (price not published)",
          "summary": "Daytona offers pay-as-you-go sandbox infrastructure priced by compute, GPU, memory, storage, and operating-system usage, with $200 in free compute included."
        },
        "observed": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "huddle01_vms",
        "name": "Huddle01 Vms",
        "price": {
          "observed": true,
          "billing": "usage",
          "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
          "monthly_usd": null,
          "headline": "Paid (price not published)",
          "summary": "Huddle01 publishes usage-based cloud rates starting at $0.031 per hour for a 2-vCPU virtual machine, with separate storage, load-balancer, and AI token charges."
        },
        "observed": true
      }
    ],
    "suggested_next_calls": [
      {
        "tool": "price_benchmark",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "sandboxed-code-execution"
        },
        "purpose": "full observed price distribution + per-tier medians for this niche"
      },
      {
        "tool": "niche_report",
        "arguments": {
          "niche": "sandboxed-code-execution",
          "response_mode": "full"
        },
        "purpose": "the complete report incl. index series and tier decomposition"
      },
      {
        "tool": "suggest_alternatives",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "amika"
        },
        "purpose": "comparable (optionally cheaper) providers to a named agent"
      },
      {
        "tool": "get_agent_profile",
        "arguments": {
          "agent_id": "amika"
        },
        "purpose": "full profile, integrations and pricing for one provider"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Full market

12 providers, one sortable view

Dense enough for many listings; progressive disclosure keeps mobile usable.

ProviderTypeFromVs niche medianLiveness
AmikaRuns sandboxed AI coding agents that understand a codebase, write and validate code, and ship pull requests autonomously
agent$30from / mo80% below100% liveagent80% below median100% live
ArdentCreates isolated sandbox copies (branches) of Postgres databases so coding agents can safely test and verify database code against a 1:1 copy of production
tool$250from / mo66.7% above100% livetool66.7% above median100% live
CodeinterpreterCodeInterpreter extends Python-based coding environments with integrated data analysis, enabling developers to run scripts, visualize results, and prototype so…
mcp$10from / mo93.3% below100% livemcp93.3% below median100% live
Cloudflare ContainersContainer sandbox management. Spin up isolated development environments on Cloudflare.
mcp$10from / mo93.3% below100% livemcp93.3% below median100% live
AgentshellA sandboxed cloud VPS for AI agents, providing Ubuntu, root access, SSH and browser terminals, live monitoring, and preinstalled coding agents including Claude…
agent$10from / mo93.3% below100% liveagent93.3% below median100% live
BoxliteEmbeddable, stateful micro-VMs with hardware isolation for AI agents. Boots in milliseconds, runs locally on laptop, cluster, or customer machine with no daemo…
agentFreefree to use100% liveagent100% live
ClawkerSelf-hosted, open-source sandbox for running Claude Code and AI coding agents in isolated Docker containers with deny-by-default egress firewall, prompt-inject…
agentFreefree to use100% liveagent100% live
E2b 2Provides isolated sandboxes for AI agents to safely execute code, process data, and run tools. SDKs for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python. Used by 88% of Fort…
agent$150from / moat median100% liveagentat median100% live
JupyterMCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Jupyter Notebooks in real-time—edit, document, and execute code for data analysis and visualization across local…
mcpFreefree to use100% livemcp100% live
QonqreteControlled execution layer for AI-assisted coding. Runs deterministic plan-build-validate-inspect loops in isolated sandboxes with bounded repair, validation,…
agentFreefree to use100% liveagent100% live
RustunnelOpen-source secure tunnel exposing localhost to the internet. Includes MCP server for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline). Pay-as-you-go from $3/mo or…
mcp$3from / mo98% below100% livemcp98% below median100% live
TrycaseDisposable test environments for LLMs that provide Linux desktops with browser control to run apps, test user flows, and return screenshots, recordings, and lo…
agent$49from / mo67.3% below100% liveagent67.3% below median100% live
Showing only providers with a published price or a free plan. $29 = lowest observed monthly · Free = free to use · Free tier = free plan + paid options.