CreateOS Sandbox vs Huawei Cloud AgentArts
Pick AgentArts if your company already runs on Huawei Cloud, wants the agent platform and its runtime from one provider, and can wait for the international launch. Pick CreateOS Sandbox if you need a documented, self-serve sandbox API today, with published rates and SDKs. Huawei has published press announcements for AgentSphere but no public sandbox docs, pricing or SDK.
Huawei announced AgentArts as an open beta, with commercial availability outside China announced for 30 December.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Huawei Cloud AgentArts pricing as published on 17 October 2026. Rates billed per GB rather than per GiB, or as bundled sizes, are quoted as published rather than converted.
CreateOS Sandbox
- Compute
- $0.0362 /vCPU-hr
- Memory
- $0.0116 /GiB-hr
Huawei Cloud AgentArts
Pricing not published
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Huawei Cloud AgentArts has the edge.
A self-serve API you can try now: a Free plan with 1 vCPU / 1 GB and 1 concurrent sandbox, plus documented REST, CLI and MCP access.
Per-second rates on a public page: $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and $0.01159025 per GiB-hour, with no egress fees.
Official SDKs for TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java, with all but TypeScript at pre-1.0 versions.
Where Huawei Cloud AgentArts is strong
Huawei states that AgentSphere starts in under 100 ms and can batch-create hundreds of thousands of instances per minute, inside an agent platform that already serves over 100 enterprises and has an open-source edition, openJiuwen.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- You need to call a documented sandbox API from your own code this week.
- You want to price a workload from public per-second rates before talking to sales.
Pick Huawei Cloud AgentArts if
- Your company already runs on Huawei Cloud, especially in China or other markets Huawei serves.
- You want the agent platform, its runtime and an open-source edition (openJiuwen) from one vendor.
Head-to-Head Comparison
Every dimension side by side, checked on 17 October 2026 against each vendor's own docs and pricing pages. "Not published" means we could not find it on the vendor's pages, not that the feature is missing.
| Dimension | CreateOS Sandbox | Huawei Cloud AgentArts |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel | Ultra-lightweight sandbox technology (vendor-stated); technology not named |
| Outbound network default | Open with no rules; deny-by-default once any host, IP, CIDR or wildcard rule exists, enforced on the host outside the VM | Not published |
| Concurrency | 1 / 5 / 20 / 30 by plan (Free to Enterprise); paused sandboxes count | Batch-create hundreds of thousands of instances per minute (vendor-stated) |
| Session length | No cap; optional idle auto-pause from 60 s to 24 h, off by default | Not published |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour, $0.01159025 per GiB-hour, storage $0.0001584 per GB-hour; no egress fees (50 GiB bandwidth budget per sandbox) | Not published |
| SDKs and interfaces | TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C#, Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP, REST | Not published for the sandbox; AgentArts has an open-source edition, openJiuwen |
| Self-host or BYOC | Enterprise only, onboarded by our team | openJiuwen shares over 90% of its kernel with the enterprise edition (vendor-stated); AgentSphere self-host not published |
Common Questions
Is Huawei AgentSphere available to developers outside China?
Not yet as a documented product. Huawei announced AgentArts as an open beta, with commercial availability outside China announced for 30 December. No public AgentSphere sandbox docs, pricing or SDK were found on Huawei's own sites as of 17 October 2026.
How does Huawei AgentSphere isolate agent code?
Huawei describes ultra-lightweight sandbox technology but does not name it in its announcements. CreateOS Sandbox runs each sandbox in a Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel, root filesystem and network identity, and sandboxes cannot reach each other unless placed on the same private network.
Can I self-host Huawei's agent platform?
Partly. AgentArts has an open-source edition, openJiuwen, which Huawei says shares over 90% of its kernel with the enterprise edition. Self-hosting the AgentSphere sandbox itself is not published. CreateOS self-hosting and BYOC are available to enterprise customers only, onboarded by our team.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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