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AI Agent Sandbox & Runtime Infrastructure provides isolated cloud environments — including microVMs, containers, and managed runtimes — where AI agents can safely execute LLM-generated code, run shell commands, browse the web, and interact with tools without touching production systems. These platforms handle the full execution lifecycle: spinning up ephemeral sandboxes on demand, enforcing hardware- or kernel-level isolation between tenants, managing session state and filesystem persistence, and tearing down environments after use. They expose APIs or SSH interfaces so agent frameworks can programmatically create, use, and destroy execution environments at scale, with billing typically tied to active compute time or wall-clock session duration.
Running AI-generated code directly on production infrastructure creates unacceptable security and stability risks, since agents may execute untrusted, unpredictable, or destructive operations. This category eliminates that risk by providing strong isolation boundaries that contain any damage from errant or malicious code. It also solves the operational complexity of provisioning and scaling ephemeral compute on demand — traditional cloud VMs are too slow to start and too expensive to keep idle between agent tasks. Additionally, these platforms address state management challenges across multi-step agent workflows, session lifetime constraints, and the difficulty of giving agents access to real tools like terminals, browsers, and filesystems without exposing the broader environment.
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by Modal
Isolated container environments for safely running AI-generated code, RL rollouts, and agent workloads at scale, with sub-second scheduling, support for 100k+ concurrent sandboxes, integrated storage, and full observability.

by Docker
Docker Sandboxes are disposable, isolated microVM environments designed to run AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Codex, and Kiro) safely and unattended, providing each agent with its own Docker daemon, filesystem, and network without touching the host system.

by E2B
E2B Sandbox provides secure, isolated Linux microVM environments that AI agents can use to safely execute LLM-generated code, run shell commands, install packages, and interact with tools — exposed via Python and JavaScript SDKs and a REST API, with billing tied to active compute time.

by Exe
On-demand KVM-isolated virtual machines accessible via SSH or API, designed for developers and AI agents to safely run code, execute commands, and manage persistent workloads in isolated, ephemeral or durable environments with copy-on-write cloning, pooled resource pricing, and built-in HTTPS proxying.

by Fly.io
Fly.io's microVM compute platform that enables fast, on-demand deployment of containerized applications across a globally distributed network of data centers.

An open-source AI agent runtime that provides isolated per-agent containers (nsjail sandboxes), cron scheduling, webhook ingress, encrypted state, and multi-channel communication so AI assistants can build and run persistent autonomous agents 24/7 with 70–98% fewer tokens than standard MCP tool calls.

by Tangle
An AI-native isolated cloud runtime that provisions per-tenant Docker containers, Firecracker microVMs, or hardware TEEs for AI agents, enabling safe code execution, shell access, durable CRIU-based session snapshots, and multi-backend coding agent support via a unified TypeScript SDK.