{
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    "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
    "file": "/logos/google-agent-sandbox.png",
    "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com"
  },
  "name": "Google Cloud Agent Platform sandboxes",
  "ownership": {
    "bowerbird": false,
    "operator": "Google LLC"
  },
  "products": {
    "agent_sandbox": {
      "billing": {
        "granularity_seconds": 1,
        "minimum_seconds": {
          "unknown": "Not published"
        },
        "payment_model": "metered",
        "per_job_fee_usd": 0.0,
        "plan_minimum_usd_per_month": 0.0,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing"
        }
      },
      "billing_basis": "wall_clock",
      "capabilities": {
        "agent_run_api": false,
        "desktop": "browser",
        "docker_inside": {
          "unknown": "Not stated"
        },
        "gpu": {
          "unknown": "Not mentioned on the sandbox pages"
        },
        "preinstalled_agents": [],
        "sdks": [
          "python"
        ],
        "soc2": {
          "unknown": "Not stated on the sandbox or pricing pages"
        },
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox"
        },
        "ssh": false
      },
      "categories": [
        "agent_sandbox"
      ],
      "free": {
        "minutes_per_month": 0,
        "one_time_credit_usd": 0.0,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing"
        },
        "usd_per_month": 0.0
      },
      "isolation": {
        "unknown": "Described as secure container sandboxing; the technology is not named"
      },
      "lifecycle": {
        "auto_stop_minutes": {
          "unknown": "TTL is configurable and reset by each execute call; the default is not stated"
        },
        "cold_start_claim_ms": 1000,
        "fork": "none",
        "idle_billed": true,
        "pause_resume": true,
        "persistence": "filesystem",
        "snapshots": false,
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox/manage-sandboxes"
        }
      },
      "max_concurrent_sandboxes": {
        "unknown": "No sandbox quota is published on the sandbox pages"
      },
      "max_memory_gb": 4.0,
      "max_session_minutes": 20160,
      "max_vcpu": 4,
      "name": "Agent Platform Code Execution sandboxes",
      "notes": [
        "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."
      ],
      "platform": {
        "byoc": false,
        "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"
        ],
        "self_host": {
          "unknown": "The docs point to open-source projects (AX, Substrate) for the architecture but do not offer the managed sandbox as self-hosted"
        },
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/resources/agent-locations"
        }
      },
      "pricing": {
        "per_resource": {
          "memory_gb": {
            "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
            "per": "hour",
            "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing",
            "usd": 0.009
          },
          "vcpu": {
            "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
            "per": "hour",
            "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing",
            "usd": 0.085
          }
        }
      },
      "storage": {
        "disk_included_gb": {
          "unknown": "The filesystem is described as limited; no size is published"
        },
        "disk_usd_per_gb_month": {
          "unknown": "Agent Storage is $0.000410959 per GiB-hour, but the pricing page does not say sandbox disk is billed on it"
        },
        "egress_usd_per_gb": {
          "unknown": "Code Execution sandboxes have no network access; no egress rate is published"
        },
        "snapshot_usd_per_gb_month": {
          "unknown": "Not published"
        },
        "source": {
          "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
          "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "slug": "google-agent-sandbox",
  "status": {
    "checked_at": "2026-10-31",
    "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing",
    "value": "active"
  },
  "summary": "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.",
  "website": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox"
}