E2B vs Runloop
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Runloop: $0.634
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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $50.
Runloop fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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