# 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
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox
- Categories: Agent sandboxes
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Agent Platform Code Execution sandboxes (Agent sandboxes)

- Price: $0.085 /vCPU-h (+ $0.009 per GB-hour)
- 1-hour session: ≥ $0.206 (2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 18 of 26)
- Fleet month: ≥ $1,813 (50 × 8 h × 22 days)
- Billed on: Running time (per second)
- Isolation: unknown (sessions up to 336 h)

### Billing

- Payment: Metered: usage billed afterwards [1]
- Plan minimum: None [1]
- Billing increment: Per second [1]
- Minimum charge: unknown (Not published) [1]
- Per-job fee: None [1]

### Runtime

- Billed on: Running time [1]
- Isolation: unknown (Described as secure container sandboxing; the technology is not named) [1]
- Max session: 336 h [1]
- Concurrent sandboxes: unknown (No sandbox quota is published on the sandbox pages) [1]
- Largest vCPU: 4 [1]
- Largest memory: 4 GB [1]

### Lifecycle

- Survives a stop: Disk [3]
- Snapshots: No [3]
- Pause and resume: Yes [3]
- Fork: No [3]
- Compute billed while stopped: Yes [3]
- Auto-stop: unknown (TTL is configurable and reset by each execute call; the default is not stated) [3]
- Start time (vendor claim): 1 s [3]

### Capabilities

- GPU: unknown (Not mentioned on the sandbox pages) [4]
- Desktop: Browser [4]
- Coding agents installed: None [4]
- Agent prompt API: No [4]
- SSH: No [4]
- Docker inside: unknown (Not stated) [4]
- SDKs: Python [4]
- SOC 2: unknown (Not stated on the sandbox or pricing pages) [4]

### Storage and network

- Disk included: unknown (The filesystem is described as limited; no size is published) [1]
- Extra disk: unknown (Agent Storage is $0.000410959 per GiB-hour, but the pricing page does not say sandbox disk is billed on it) [1]
- Snapshot storage: unknown (Not published) [1]
- Egress: unknown (Code Execution sandboxes have no network access; no egress rate is published) [1]

### 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 (The docs point to open-source projects (AX, Substrate) for the architecture but do not offer the managed sandbox as self-hosted) [2]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [1]
- Credit a month: None [1]
- One-time credit: None [1]

### 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.

## Sources

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/resources/agent-locations (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox/manage-sandboxes (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/scale/sandbox (checked 31 Oct 2026)