E2B vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 100
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 100
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
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 the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
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