Brimble Sandboxes vs E2B

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

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.

Brimble Sandboxes
E2B
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
E2B: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
E2B: $150 / month
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
E2B: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
E2B: Up to 100
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
E2B: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
E2B: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
E2B: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: No
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
E2B:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
E2B
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

E2B fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.

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