Depot Agent Sandboxes vs E2B

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Depot Agent Sandboxes runs containers. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Depot Agent Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

E2B

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

What is different

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

Depot Agent Sandboxes
E2B
Paid plan from
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
E2B: $150 / month
Isolation
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Free
Free tier
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Up to 1,100

Platform

Isolation
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: No
Snapshots
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B:
Pause and resume
Depot Agent Sandboxes:
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

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 use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.

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