AgentBay vs E2B

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

E2B

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

AgentBay
E2B
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
E2B: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
E2B: Up to 1,100
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
E2B: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
E2B: Up to 1,100

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B: No
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
E2B
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
E2B: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

E2B fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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