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AgentTap vs Azure Foundry Hosted Agents

Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.

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Developer Tools

AgentTap

Capture every LLM call from any agent — no instrumentation needed

Mixed

50%

Panel ship

Community

Paid

Entry

AgentTap is an open-source observability tool that intercepts AI agent traffic at the network level using a split VPN and local MITM proxy. Instead of requiring you to add tracing SDKs to every agent, AgentTap sits in front of your network and captures all calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and other LLM providers automatically — with zero per-app configuration. The tool streams captured traces in real time, reconstructing the full prompt-response pairs, tool calls, and token counts from raw network traffic. You can observe agents running in any language, any framework, or any black-box binary — even commercial tools you don't control the source of. It's the network packet analyzer equivalent for AI agents. Built in TypeScript with a Rust-based VPN core, AgentTap is currently at 3 stars and very early — but the architectural approach is genuinely novel. Existing tools like LangSmith, Helicone, and Braintrust all require explicit SDK integration. AgentTap's bet is that the right observability layer is the network, not the application.

A

Developer Tools

Azure Foundry Hosted Agents

Per-session isolated agent sandboxes on Azure — scale to zero, any framework

Mixed

50%

Panel ship

Community

Paid

Entry

Microsoft Azure's Foundry Agent Service now offers Hosted Agents in public preview — per-session isolated compute sandboxes purpose-built for running AI agents at scale. Each session gets its own container with a persistent filesystem, internet access (optional), and a Python environment pre-loaded with common agent dependencies. Sessions spin up in seconds and terminate — and stop billing — the moment the agent task completes. The design is framework-agnostic: it officially supports LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, and Microsoft's own Agent Framework, with others planned. This removes one of the most awkward parts of deploying agents in production: figuring out where they actually run. The persistent filesystem per session means agents can read and write files across their task without external storage configuration. Pricing is $0.0994/vCPU-hour and $0.0118/GiB-hour — competitive with Lambda/Cloud Run for bursty workloads. The service is available in six Azure regions at launch. For enterprises already invested in Azure, this is a compelling "we just figured out the infra" moment. Independent developers can also use it without an enterprise agreement.

Decision
AgentTap
Azure Foundry Hosted Agents
Panel verdict
Mixed · 2 ship / 2 skip
Mixed · 2 ship / 2 skip
Community
No community votes yet
No community votes yet
Pricing
Open Source
$0.0994/vCPU-hour, $0.0118/GiB-hour (public preview)
Best for
Capture every LLM call from any agent — no instrumentation needed
Per-session isolated agent sandboxes on Azure — scale to zero, any framework
Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools

Reviewer scorecard

Builder
80/100 · ship

Treating agent observability as a network problem is a genuinely smart idea. Being able to observe any LLM calls — including from tools you didn't write — is a superpower for debugging multi-agent systems. Zero instrumentation overhead is huge.

80/100 · ship

Framework-agnostic hosted sandboxes with scale-to-zero is exactly what I need for deploying agents without maintaining my own Kubernetes cluster. The per-session isolation eliminates a whole class of security concerns I was handling manually. The Claude Agent SDK support means I don't have to choose between Azure and my preferred model.

Skeptic
45/100 · skip

Running a MITM proxy through all your LLM traffic is a serious security commitment — you're decrypting TLS in-process. In corporate environments this will fail security reviews immediately. Also, 3 stars and created two days ago. Give it six months.

45/100 · skip

Public preview means production instability risk and pricing could change significantly at GA. The cold start time for agent sessions needs to be benchmarked against real workloads before committing. And six regions is thin coverage for global deployments — wait for broader availability.

Futurist
80/100 · ship

As agents become black boxes running across systems we don't control, network-level observability becomes the only viable audit layer. AgentTap is pioneering the right approach — what Wireshark did for networks, this could do for AI infrastructure.

80/100 · ship

The battle for agent infrastructure is the next cloud wars — and Microsoft just answered Google Cloud's agent platform launch with their own. Framework-agnostic compute that works with any model provider is a smart commoditization play: own the infrastructure layer, let the model battle play out above it.

Creator
45/100 · skip

This is squarely a backend DevOps tool and the setup complexity (VPN + proxy + certs) puts it out of reach for most creative practitioners. Cool concept but the audience is very narrow.

45/100 · skip

This is squarely developer infrastructure — not directly relevant to creative workflows unless your studio runs its own agents. Worth watching for the ecosystem tools that get built on top of it.

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AgentTap vs Azure Foundry Hosted Agents: Which AI Tool Should You Ship? — Ship or Skip