Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs E2B

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

E2B

Open-source sandboxes for AI-generated code.

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

Visit site E2B profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

E2B

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; E2B: Free
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; E2B: $150 / month
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; E2B: Firecracker microVM

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

E2Be2b.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $0.0162
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; E2B: Free
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; E2B: $150 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: Up to 1,100

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; E2B: No
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; E2B:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; E2B:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

E2B

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; E2B: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

E2B fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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