What Anthropic Managed Agents Is
Anthropic’s Managed Agents is an official hosted execution service for Claude agents. Priced per session hour plus API usage, it handles the infrastructure complexity of running autonomous agents: sandboxed code execution, session state management, credential handling, tool definition, checkpointing and end-to-end tracing. The pitch is speed: go from idea to production agent in days instead of months.
It’s the official Anthropic answer to “I just want to run Claude agents without building infrastructure.” You still design the agent, write its instructions and tools, and decide what it does.
What Sentrely Is
Sentrely is not agent infrastructure. Sentrely is a managed AI team, backed by real engineers, that builds, ships and monitors production-grade software in accounts you own. Our AI employees are deployed and supervised by our engineers. Your team works with them through an agent in your Slack, asking it to build, ship and monitor production-grade software. Every change gets automated safety checks, important changes get human sign-off, and your data and files have a 35-day rewind.
The Real Question: Build or Buy?
Anthropic Managed Agents removes the infrastructure work, but someone on your side still has to:
- Design and build the agent. Prompts, tools, permissions and workflows are yours to write.
- Decide what’s safe. Which actions need a human to approve them is up to your own code.
- Own the result. When the agent ships something broken, your team debugs it.
For an engineering team, that’s a fair trade. For a business owner who just needs software that works, it’s still a development project.
The Comparison
| Dimension | Anthropic Managed Agents | Sentrely |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Hosted runtime for Claude agents | Managed AI team backed by real engineers |
| Who builds the agents | You | We do |
| Who it’s for | Developers | Non-technical founders and business owners |
| Sandboxed execution, session state | Yes | Not something we sell |
| Safety checks on changes | Your responsibility | Automated checks on every change |
| Human review | Your responsibility | Engineer sign-off on important changes |
| Where the software lives | Wherever you deploy it | Your own hosting and code accounts |
| Undo | Your own backups | 35-day rewind on data and files |
| Support | Anthropic support for the runtime | Named account manager and on-call support |
| Pricing | Per session hour plus API usage | Custom, scoped on a free call |
When to Use Anthropic Managed Agents
The official service is the right choice when:
- You have developers who want to build Claude agents
- Session infrastructure (sandboxing, state, checkpointing) is the hard part you want to skip
- You want first-party support from Anthropic on execution issues
When to Use Sentrely
If you’d rather not build and run this yourself, Sentrely is the right choice when:
- You need production software built, fixed and shipped, and you’re not a developer
- You want real engineers accountable for what ships
- You want the finished software in accounts you own, not locked inside a vendor
- You want someone to call when something breaks
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