Agent infrastructure, priced per task.
Independent price-and-change tracking for AI agent sandboxes and cloud browsers. Every value carries its source and a verified date. Vendors can't buy placement.
Sandboxes
Isolated machines where an agent runs code. Cost per task · Startup time
Cost per task
6 providers · from $0.00754 per task (Cloudflare Sandbox)
Verified 2026-10-17 | Details | Provider | Cost / task | Free tier | Status | Verified |
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| Cloudflare Sandbox | $0.007541,2 | No free tier for Containers. Workers Paid ($5/mo) includes 375 vCPU-min, 25 GiB-h memory, 200 GB-h disk. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Vercel Sandbox | $0.00920 | Hobby: 5 active-CPU hours, 420 GB-hours, 5,000 creations per month. Personal/non-commercial use only per Vercel ToS. | Changed | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| E2B | $0.01380 | Hobby: $0/mo, one-time $100 usage credit, no credit card. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Daytona | $0.01380 | $200 in free compute, no credit card. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Blaxel3 | $0.013804 | Up to $200 in free credits; Tier 0 (free) allows 10 sandboxes. | Changed | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Modal | $0.019835 | Starter: $0/mo with $30/mo included compute. | Changed | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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- Instance standard-3 (2 vCPU / 8 GiB).
- Excludes Workers / Durable Objects charges and monthly included usage.
- Pricing only. Blaxel's terms prohibit publishing benchmarks or performance information about Blaxel (Terms & Conditions, restriction (f)).
- Assumes active for the full duration (upper bound).
- 1 physical core; billed on requested resources.
Usage cost for one task at the conditions above. Plan fees, free credits, storage, egress, proxies and LLM tokens are excluded. How we calculate.
Conditions
- Timed
- create + first command3
- Samples
- 1 warm-up + 10
- Runner
- GitHub Actions, Phoenix, US
- Regions
- not all pinned4
| Provider | Median, ms | p95, ms | Size5 | Region | Runs ok |
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| Cloudflare Sandbox6 | 152 ms | 243 ms | standard-1 (1/2 vCPU, 4 GiB) | LAX4 | 10/10 |
| E2B | 261 ms | 353 ms | default | default4 | 10/10 |
| Modal | 549 ms | 1,607 ms | 1 core (2 vCPU), 4 GiB | default4 | 10/10 |
| Daytona | 905 ms | 2,359 ms | default | us | 10/10 |
- Not yet measured: Vercel Sandbox. Help us measure Vercel Sandbox
- Pricing only. Blaxel's terms prohibit publishing benchmarks or performance information about Blaxel (Terms & Conditions, restriction (f)).
- Timed from the create call until the command echo ok returns in the new sandbox (create + first command). Destroy time is recorded separately. Sandbox and browser boards time different steps, so their numbers are not comparable with each other.
- Region not pinned: the provider chose placement, because region selection is not offered, costs extra, or needs a paid plan on that provider. Where the provider reports a region, the observed one is shown.
- Instance sizes differ: each provider runs at the size listed in the Size column (provider default unless stated). Startup time can depend on size and image.
- Cloudflare Sandbox is timed inside its benchmark Worker, within Cloudflare's network, so it excludes the network latency from the runner that the other rows include. The full request from the runner (network, Worker routing, start, echo ok and destroy) took a median 703 ms.
Median time to a usable sandbox in Coldtally's latest daily run. Not yet measured: Vercel Sandbox. Help us measure Vercel Sandbox. Blaxel: pricing only. Cloudflare Sandbox (grey) is timed inside its benchmark Worker, which leaves out network latency, so it isn't counted as fastest. Startup time is a secondary check; prices are the main comparison. Raw results · Method.
Cloud browsers
Hosted browsers an agent drives over CDP. Cost per task · Startup time
Cost per task
6 providers · from $0.00100 per task (Browser Use)
Verified 2026-10-17 | Details | Provider | Cost / task | Free tier | Status | Verified |
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| Browser Use | $0.001001 | One-time $1 credit for eligible signups, 10 concurrent sessions; top-ups from $5. | Changed | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| KERNEL | $0.00300 | Free: $0/mo with $5/month usage credits, 5 concurrent browsers, no credit card. | Changed | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Cloudflare Browser Run | $0.00450 | Workers Free: 10 browser-minutes per day, 3 concurrent browsers, 1 new browser every 20 s. Workers Paid ($5/mo) includes 10 browser hours and 10 concurrent browsers a month. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Steel | $0.005002 | Launch: $0/mo, $30 one-time credits, no credit card. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Hyperbrowser | $0.005002 | Free: 5,000 credits ($5) included. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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| Browserbase | $0.006002 | Free: 1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers, 15 min/session. | — | 2026-10-17source (opens in new tab) | |
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- Rounded up to whole minutes, 1-min minimum.
- Billing granularity unverified; computed per second.
Usage cost for one task at the conditions above. Plan fees, free credits, storage, egress, proxies and LLM tokens are excluded. How we calculate.
Conditions
- Timed
- create + connect + page load2
- Samples
- 1 warm-up + 10
- Runner
- GitHub Actions, Phoenix, US
- Target
- coldtally.pages.dev/bench-target/
- Regions
- not all pinned3
| Provider | Median, ms | p95, ms | Region | Runs ok |
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| KERNEL | 738 ms | 896 ms | us-east3 | 10/10 |
| Browser Use | 1,138 ms | 1,403 ms | default3 | 10/10 |
| Cloudflare Browser Run4 | 1,496 ms | 2,195 ms | LAX3 | 10/10 |
| Steel | 1,586 ms | 2,248 ms | iad | 10/10 |
- Not yet measured: Browserbase, Hyperbrowser. Help us measure Browserbase · Help us measure Hyperbrowser
- Timed from the create call until the target page reaches DOMContentLoaded (create session + CDP connect + page load). Release time is recorded separately. Sandbox and browser boards time different steps, so their numbers are not comparable with each other.
- Region not pinned: the provider chose placement, because region selection is not offered, costs extra, or needs a paid plan on that provider. Where the provider reports a region, the observed one is shown.
- Cloudflare Browser Run is timed inside its benchmark Worker, within Cloudflare's network, so it excludes the network latency from the runner that the other rows include. The full request from the runner (network, Worker routing, launch, connect, page load and release) took a median 1,687 ms.
Median time to a usable browser in Coldtally's latest daily run. Not yet measured: Browserbase, Hyperbrowser. Help us measure Browserbase · Help us measure Hyperbrowser. Cloudflare Browser Run (grey) is timed inside its benchmark Worker, which leaves out network latency, so it isn't counted as fastest. Startup time is a secondary check; prices are the main comparison. Raw results · Method.
Changes
- Baseline captured for 11 providers baseline
What changed in agent infra, weekly
Every pricing, plan, limit and terms change we detect for sandboxes and cloud browsers, with sources. One email a week. No vendor-paid content.