E2B vs Prime Sandboxes
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
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 LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 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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