# Huawei Cloud AgentArts

Official pricing: https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf  
Category: agent-sandbox · Isolation: microvm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Base CU tariff, mainland China (public beta): code interpreter/browser/runtime** (resource): $0.165531779128/vCPU-h, $0.016553177913/GiB-h [beta]
- **ECS pay-per-use, AP-Singapore (international site, USD): general computing S6 / X1 / C9** (sizes): s6.medium.2 1 vCPU/2 GiB $0.033/h; s6.large.2 2 vCPU/4 GiB $0.066/h; s6.large.4 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.08/h; s6.xlarge.2 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.132/h; s6.xlarge.4 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.16/h; s6.2xlarge.2 8 vCPU/16 GiB $0.264/h [alt]
- **ECS pay-per-use, LA-Mexico City2 (cheapest international region): S6 / X1** (sizes): s6.medium.2 1 vCPU/2 GiB $0.027/h; s6.large.2 2 vCPU/4 GiB $0.054/h; s6.large.4 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.06/h; s6.xlarge.2 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.108/h; s6.xlarge.4 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.12/h; s6.2xlarge.2 8 vCPU/16 GiB $0.216/h [alt]
- **ECS yearly/monthly subscription, AP-Singapore** (sizes): s6.large.2 2 vCPU/4 GiB $35.92/h; s6.xlarge.2 4 vCPU/8 GiB $71.83/h; s6.2xlarge.2 8 vCPU/16 GiB $143.66/h; x1.16u.32g 16 vCPU/32 GiB $293.5/h [alt, commit]
- **ECS general computing-basic T6 (burstable, 20% average baseline), AP-Singapore** (sizes): t6.large.2 2 vCPU/4 GiB $0.046/h; t6.xlarge.2 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.092/h; t6.2xlarge.2 8 vCPU/16 GiB $0.184/h; t6.4xlarge.2 16 vCPU/32 GiB $0.368/h [alt, burstable]

## Features

Yes: persistent disk, what survives a stop, volumes, idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), browser, computer-use API, code interpreter, browser + desktop control, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, open internet, private networking, SSO, arm64, Python, Node.js, wake on request, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), inbound access rules, secret proxy, extra volumes, shared volumes, FUSE mounts, kernel features (eBPF, mounts, cgroups)

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, whole disk survives a stop, start from your own snapshot, Docker inside, nested virtualization, desktop GUI, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, GPU, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, EU data residency, MCP server, usage per sandbox (API), automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy for any API

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/huawei-cloud.json → feature_evidence

## Company

- Ownership: subsidiary (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
- Stage: subsidiary [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei)
- Accelerators: none found
- Total raised: unknown
- Last round: none (unknown) [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei)
- Revenue: $126B (confirmed: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. group-wide revenue (Huawei Cloud/AgentArts revenue alone is not separately disclosed).) [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei) annual revenue, 2025

Huawei Technologies is a large, privately-held Chinese conglomerate (telecom equipment, smartphones, cloud) founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei; it is not a startup and has no VC/accelerator funding history. Huawei Cloud is one of its business groups, and AgentArts (code interpreter/browser/agent-runtime sandbox product) is a specific service within Huawei Cloud, currently in public beta in mainland China. Group-wide revenue/employee figures are the only numbers available; AgentArts-specific or Huawei Cloud-specific revenue is not separately disclosed. Huawei has faced heavy US/Western sanctions since 2019, which cut into smartphone and some cloud-adjacent revenue in prior years, though group revenue has since recovered to record levels.

## Caveats

- 4-vCPU/8-GiB tool sizing and concurrency not confirmed; worked example is conditional CU arithmetic.
- Other AgentArts activity consumes same monthly CU tiers; engine approximates base band only.
- CU billed to 0.0001 precision monthly; wall-clock metering increment not specified.
- Unknowns remain null, not free; generic infrastructure modes are opt-in alt.
- Worked example assumes resources are released between active windows unless a retained-instance scenario is explicitly discussed.
- VAT basis: Unknown: reviewed pricing source does not explicitly establish VAT/tax inclusion.
- Residency: China AgentArts public-beta documentation; Beijing-four legacy service differs from newer platform. Region and 4/8 configurable tool support need confirmation.
- Re-checked 2026-09-28 (AgentArts 计费说明 v04, 2026-09-28): the only sandbox billing items are CPU (1 CU per vCPU-h) and memory (0.1 CU per GiB-h) for runtime, code interpreter and browser tool; disk/storage is not a billing item, so disk_gib_month=0 (sandbox disk size itself is unpublished). No snapshot or public-network egress item is listed; both stay null (unknown).
- Mainland-China console (support.huaweicloud.com, CNY); every feature is labelled 公测 (public beta) on the release-notes page. No SSH is documented (session API only) and the browser tool offers LiveView of the browser via noVNC, not a full desktop: ssh=false, desktop=false.
- CU annual pack (beta): example 20,000 CU for CNY 21,105/year (CNY 1.05525/CU, ~5% below on-demand), valid 1 year, needs an existing plan; ~$3,145 prepaid. Not modelled as a mode because the prepaid pack floor cannot be encoded.
- Isolation is mixed across the tools in the base-cu mode (re-checked 2026-10-14): runtime sessions run in microVMs (agentarts_10_119), the browser tool runs one sandbox container per session (agentarts_10_164), and the code interpreter boundary is not documented. The card shows microvm; browser-only workloads get container isolation. Egress control is split the same way: domain allow/block lists exist only for browser sessions, runtimes use PUBLIC/VPC mode plus security groups.

## How this provider charges


As of 2026-09-28. Price basis: public list/reference unless labeled historical, illustrative, promo or unpriced.

CU-based shared wallet for Runtime, code interpreter, browser and other platform services. CPU-hour=1 CU; GiB-hour=.1 CU. Base marginal price CNY 1.1108/CU below 55,000 monthly CU. Next band to 280,000 costs 1/CU, then .9/CU. Progressive tiers are not selectable discount plans. Initial 20 CU is one-time, not monthly.

## Currency, VAT and residency
- Native catalog: CNY. FX: 1 CNY = 0.149020326907 USD, ECB 2026-09-28 ([source](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.cs.html)). USD-listed catalogs remain independent quotes.
- Tax: Unknown: reviewed pricing source does not explicitly establish VAT/tax inclusion.
- Residency/restrictions: China AgentArts public-beta documentation; Beijing-four legacy service differs from newer platform. Region and 4/8 configurable tool support need confirmation.

## Regimes
| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Native / USD numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| base-cu | Base CU tariff: code interpreter/browser/runtime | allocated wall time; None second increment | CNY 1.1108/vCPU-h + 0.11108/GiB-h → USD 0.165531779128 + 0.016553177913; null means unknown | https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf |
| volume-tier | 55,000–280,000 CU | See rule | CNY 1/CU marginal; not retroactive. | https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf |
| volume-tier | 280,000+ CU | See rule | CNY .9/CU marginal; not retroactive. | https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf |
| subscription | Team/enterprise and annual CU packs | See rule | Package prices available in resource/subscription console, not public PDF; CU overage still applies. | https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf |

## Gotchas
- 4-vCPU/8-GiB tool sizing and concurrency not confirmed; worked example is conditional CU arithmetic.
- Other AgentArts activity consumes same monthly CU tiers; engine approximates base band only.
- CU billed to 0.0001 precision monthly; wall-clock metering increment not specified.
- Unknowns remain null, not free; generic infrastructure modes are opt-in alt.
- Worked example assumes resources are released between active windows unless a retained-instance scenario is explicitly discussed.
- VAT basis: Unknown: reviewed pricing source does not explicitly establish VAT/tax inclusion.
- Residency: China AgentArts public-beta documentation; Beijing-four legacy service differs from newer platform. Region and 4/8 configurable tool support need confirmation.

## Required worked example
4 vCPU / 8 GiB requested; 50 simultaneous workers × 8 hours/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 1,100 daily sessions. CPU utilization 30% does not reduce allocated-resource charges. Snapshot retention is **50 GiB total for 730 hours**, not 50 GiB per worker; egress is **100 GiB total**. Root disk size was not specified, so root/volume costs are not silently assigned zero.
- base-cu: USD 0.79455254/allocated hour × 8,800 = **USD 6992.06 compute** (before quotas, fees, free buckets, storage and tax).
- 50 GiB retained snapshots: **unknown/unverified feature or price**, not USD 0.
- 100 GiB egress: **unknown**, not USD 0.
- Full all-in bill: **null** where any required storage/network/fee or eligibility fact is unresolved. Quota raises may be necessary for 200 aggregate vCPU / 400 GiB RAM.

## Sources
- https://support.huaweicloud.com/price-agentarts/agentarts-price-pdf.pdf
- https://support.huaweicloud.com/highcode-agentarts/agentarts_10_164.html
- https://support.huaweicloud.com/api-agentarts/CreateCoreRuntime.html
- https://support.huaweicloud.com/wtsnew-agentarts/index.html