Daytona vs E2B

Daytona and E2B charge the same list price: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

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.

Daytona
E2B
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
E2B: Free
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Max session
Daytona: No limit
E2B: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
E2B: No
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
E2B: Free
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
Daytona: Per second
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
E2B: Up to 1,100

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
E2B: No
Snapshots
Daytona:
E2B:
Pause and resume
Daytona:
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
E2B
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
E2B: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • 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.

E2B fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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