E2B vs InstaVM
E2B and InstaVM 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. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
InstaVM
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
InstaVMinstavm
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- InstaVM: Not listed
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- InstaVM: $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, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $50.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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