Agent37
Intro
Agent37 (agent37.com) is a Y Combinator-backed AI agent sandbox / infra product: “You build the agents. We run the infrastructure,” claiming ~94% lower cost than many sandbox vendors. The site highlights gVisor (or VM) isolation, per-minute billing, sleep-when-idle, hosted harnesses (Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, …), free personal-agent credit, and startup customers.
In this scan window a founder pricing chart (2 vCPU / 4 GB always-on month: Vercel $249 vs Agent37 $4.76) went viral on X; Vercel’s CEO and community notes argued active-CPU metering makes the apples-to-apples claim misleading. Regardless, Agent37 is a concrete new product proper noun with a live site and launch chatter.
Explain
Problem
Agents often idle waiting on tokens; paying full-month always-on sandbox rates is expensive. Agent37 pushes pricing toward viable per-user always-on boxes.
Differentiation
Versus Vercel/Cloudflare/Daytona/E2B/Modal: lower always-on sticker price and agent harness templates; idle vs active-CPU billing is the debate—run your own math.
Limits
- Busy workloads may erase the gap; load-test with real agent traces.
- Read Security/Docs for isolation, regions, SLA.
- Viral comparison tables may be caveated by community notes.
Usage
Who it is for
Products that want an isolated sandbox per end user where agents are mostly idle; solo builders hosting Claude Code/Codex-style harnesses.
Getting started
- Sign up at agent37.com and use the free credit.
- Run your harness on 2vCPU/4GB; measure create/wake latency and busy-hour cost.
- Compare against Daytona/E2B/Vercel bills before migrating.
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