boxd vs E2B
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boxd
E2B
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- E2B: $150 / month
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- E2B: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: Up to 1,100
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: No
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- E2B:
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- E2B:
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- E2B: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
E2B
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- E2B: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- E2B: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- E2B: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.150 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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 want the larger free credit: $100 against $30.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
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