E2B vs HopX
E2B and HopX charge the same list price: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
HopX
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- HopX: No limit
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- HopX: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- HopX: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- HopX: No limit
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- HopX: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- HopX: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- HopX: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- HopX: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- HopX:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- HopX: MCP
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- HopX: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- HopX: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
HopX
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- HopX: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- HopX: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- HopX: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
E2B fits when
- 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.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
HopX fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the larger free credit: $200 against $100.
- You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
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