CreateOS Sandbox vs E2B
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
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.
CreateOS Sandbox
E2B
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- E2B: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- E2B: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- E2B: Up to 1,100
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- E2B: No
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- E2B:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- E2B:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- E2B: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
E2B
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- E2B: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- E2B: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- E2B: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
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 need HIPAA.
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