E2B vs Namespace Devboxes
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Namespace Devboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Namespace Devboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Namespace Devboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
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 need snapshots.
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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