MicroVM, shared VM or no VM: the hosting economics of personal AI agents

What it costs per user per month to keep a cloud-hosted personal agent alive, with every calculation shown and every source linked.

Last updated 2026-10-11. Model pricing is refreshed twice daily.

Overview

What it costs per user per month to keep a cloud-hosted personal agent alive, with every calculation shown and every source linked.

Instinct-sized sandbox: $95.90/month always-on vs $4.00 on-demand at E2B rates
Muse's observed 2 vCPU / 7.7 GiB box: $162/month always-on at managed rates
Self-hosted with snapshot/resume: ~$0.15 per user
With cheap models, idle compute becomes 94% of the bill

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