E2B vs microsandbox cloud
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
E2B fits when
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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