E2B vs exe.dev

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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E2B

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

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

E2B
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
exe.dev: Included
Storage
E2B: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
E2B: $100 credit, one time
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
E2B: $150 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
E2B: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
E2B: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
Integrations
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
exe.dev: Included
Storage
E2B: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
E2B: $100 credit, one time
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
E2B: $150 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
E2B: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
E2B: 24 hours
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
E2B: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
E2B: Up to 1,100
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
E2B: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
E2B: No
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
E2B:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
E2B:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code

Trust

License
E2B: Apache-2.0
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
E2B: Enterprise plan
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

E2B
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
E2B: $0.083
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
E2B: $0.166
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: $0.331
exe.dev: $0.210

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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.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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