E2B vs Modal
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Modal:
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
E2B fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- 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 lower list price: $0.166 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need GDPR.
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