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Show HN: What a VM for your AI agent costs across 13 sandbox providers

A developer launched vm-price-board.sf.tools, a comparison page that shows which of 13 sandbox providers offers the cheapest virtual machine for a described AI agent workload, including free tiers. The tool, with source code at github.com/sf-tools/vm-price-board, was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN with 1 point and 0 comments. The creator said the page was built to avoid manually tracking new sandbox prices that appear weekly.

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I was annoyed by tracking all these new sandbox prices manually, and seeing a new one pop up on X every week.

So I built a page where you describe the machine, and it shows what provider can provide it for the cheapest, free tiers included.

Am I missing any providers? I can add more!

page: [https://vm-price-board.sf.tools](https://vm-price-board.sf.tools), source: [https://github.com/sf-tools/vm-price-board](https://github.com/sf-tools/vm-price-board)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884685](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884685)

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