Google Cloud Agent Platform sandboxes
Managed sandboxes in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI Agent Engine) for code execution, shell, custom containers and computer use, billed per vCPU-hour and GiB-hour.
Operated by Google LLC docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026
Agent sandboxes
Agent Platform Code Execution sandboxes
- Price
- $0.085 /vCPU-h
- + $0.009 per GB-hour
- Fleet month
- ≥ $1,813
- 50 × 8 h × 22 days
- Billed on
- Running time
- per second
- Isolation
- unknown
- sessions up to 336 h
Prices
| Resource | Price | Per hour |
|---|---|---|
| per vCPU | $0.085 /h[1] | $0.085 |
| per GB of memory | $0.009 /h[1] | $0.009 |
- Runtime and Sandbox environments, including Code Execution and Computer Use, are billed as Agent Compute ($0.085/vCPU-h) and Agent Memory ($0.009/GiB-h); 1-year and 3-year Gemini Enterprise Flexible Savings Plans lower these to $0.0765/$0.068 and $0.0081/$0.0072.
- Code Execution runs Python or JavaScript with a fixed library set (no user-installed packages), has no network access and accepts up to 100 MB of files per request or response.
- Pausing releases compute and keeps the filesystem; paused sandboxes "cost significantly less than running ones" but no paused rate is published.
- "Under a second" to create a sandbox and run code is a vendor claim; a cold start can take up to 2 minutes to provision resources (sandboxes overview).
- The desktop value refers to the Computer Use sandbox type (an agent drives a web browser); shell and custom-container sandboxes are also offered.
- Agent Sandbox on GKE is a separate open-source Kubernetes feature (gVisor or microVM runtimes, Pod snapshots) that runs in your own GKE cluster at GKE compute prices; it is not part of this record.
Terms
Billing
Runtime
Lifecycle
Capabilities
Storage and network
- Disk included
- unknown[1]The filesystem is described as limited; no size is published
- Extra disk
- unknown[1]Agent Storage is $0.000410959 per GiB-hour, but the pricing page does not say sandbox disk is billed on it
- Snapshot storage
- unknown[1]Not published
- Egress
- unknown[1]Code Execution sandboxes have no network access; no egress rate is published
Platform
- Regions
- us-east1, us-east4, us-west1, us-central1, europe-west1, europe-west2, europe-west3, europe-west4, europe-west6, europe-west8, europe-southwest1, asia-east1, asia-east2, asia-northeast1, asia-northeast3, asia-south1, asia-southeast1, asia-southeast2, australia-southeast2, me-west1, northamerica-northeast1, northamerica-northeast2, southamerica-east1, us, eu[2]
- Your cloud (BYOC)
- No[2]
- Self-host
- unknown[2]The docs point to open-source projects (AX, Substrate) for the architecture but do not offer the managed sandbox as self-hosted
Sources
- 1 cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing · 31 Oct 2026
- 2 docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/resources/agent-locations · 31 Oct 2026
- 3 docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox/manage-sandboxes · 31 Oct 2026
- 4 docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox · 31 Oct 2026
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