Blaxel vs E2B
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
Updated
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.
Blaxel
E2B
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- E2B: Per second
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- E2B: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- E2B: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- E2B: Up to 1,100
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- E2B: No
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- E2B:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- E2B:
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
E2B
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- E2B: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- E2B: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- E2B: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $200 against $100.
E2B fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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