What does it cost to run an AI agent?
Live, sourced prices for sandboxes, cloud browsers, memory, search APIs, observability and tool marketplaces, plus a side-by-side of the agents themselves. Updated daily by script. Every price links to the vendor page it was read from.
54vendors with sourced prices
58prices verified against the vendor page
2026-10-19last check
Disclosure. the owner of this site personally uses some of the tools listed here, including OpenClaw and treg.to. Those entries are marked ★ and are checked by the same rules as every other row. No vendor has paid for placement or ranking.
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Code sandboxes
Isolated machines where agents run code.
11 vendors with prices · 2 unverifiedCloud browsers
Hosted headless browsers for web agents.
8 vendors with prices · 2 unverifiedAgent memory & vector stores
Long-term memory and retrieval for agents.
9 vendors with pricesSearch & web-data APIs
Web search and scraping APIs built for agents.
9 vendors with pricesAgent observability & evals
Tracing, logging and evaluation for agent runs.
10 vendors with pricesTool marketplaces & pay-per-call APIs
Marketplaces and metered APIs that give agents tools: one key, pay per call.
8 vendors with prices · 1 unverifiedInteresting right now
- Code sandboxes: 5x spread. Cheapest listed is Northflank at $0.0667/hr; highest is Vercel Sandbox at $0.3408/hr.
- Cloud browsers: 10x spread. Cheapest listed is Notte at $0.01/hr; highest is Browserbase at $0.10/hr.
- Search & web-data APIs: 25x spread. Cheapest listed is Serper at $1.00/1k; highest is SerpApi at $25.00/1k.
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Cheapest listed, at a glance
Code sandboxes lowest listed
- Northflank $0.0667/hr
- Hyperbrowser $0.1500/hr
- Fly.io Sprites $0.1645/hr
Cloud browsers lowest listed
- Notte $0.01/hr
- Browser Use $0.02/hr
- Anchor Browser $0.09/hr
Search & web-data APIs lowest listed
Latest in the price-change log
- 2026-10-19 E2B baseline
- 2026-10-19 Daytona baseline
- 2026-10-19 Modal baseline
- 2026-10-19 Runloop baseline
- 2026-10-19 Vercel Sandbox baseline
- 2026-10-19 Cloudflare Containers baseline
How to read these numbers. Each figure is copied from the vendor's own pricing page and checked by a script that confirms the text is still there. Where a vendor's units can't be converted without guessing, we say "unverified" or show a dash instead. Methodology.