E2B vs Isorun

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Isorun costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Isorun runs microVMs.

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E2B

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

Isorun

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

E2B
Isorun
vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
E2B: Free
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Isorun: $50 credit
Paid plan from
E2B: $150 / month
Isorun: Pay as you go
Isolation
E2B: Firecracker microVM
Isorun: MicroVM
SDKs
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
E2B: Free
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Isorun: $50 credit
Paid plan from
E2B: $150 / month
Isorun: Pay as you go
Billing
E2B: Per second
Isorun: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
E2B: Firecracker microVM
Isorun: MicroVM
GPU
E2B: No
Isorun: Not listed
Snapshots
E2B:
Isorun:
Pause and resume
E2B:
Isorun:

Developer

SDKs
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

E2B
Isorun
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
E2B: $0.083
Isorun: $0.055
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
E2B: $0.166
Isorun: $0.110
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: $0.331
Isorun: $0.220

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which 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 the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $50.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Isorun fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.110 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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