BoxLite Cloud vs E2B

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

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

E2B

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

What is different

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

BoxLite Cloud
E2B
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
E2B: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
E2B: Up to 1,100
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
E2B: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
E2B:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
E2B: Free
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
E2B: Up to 1,100

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
E2B: No
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
E2B:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
E2B
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
E2B: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

E2B fits when

  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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