{"slug": "show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers", "title": "Show HN: What a VM for your AI agent costs across 13 sandbox providers", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "I was annoyed by tracking all these new sandbox prices manually, and seeing a new one pop up on X every week.\n\nSo I built a page where you describe the machine, and it shows what provider can provide it for the cheapest, free tiers included.\n\nAm I missing any providers? I can add more!\n\npage: [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)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884685](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884685)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers", "canonical_source": "https://vm-price-board.sf.tools/", "published_at": "2026-09-28 21:31:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 21:48:08.559505+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["vm-price-board.sf.tools", "sf-tools", "Hacker News", "GitHub"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-a-vm-for-your-ai-agent-costs-across-13-sandbox-providers.jsonld"}}