AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs E2B
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
E2B
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- E2B: Free
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- E2B: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- E2B: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- E2B: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: Up to 1,100
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: No
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- E2B:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- E2B:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- E2B: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
E2B
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- E2B: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- E2B: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- E2B: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
E2B fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- 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 want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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