E2B vs Sandbox as a Service
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs 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
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.
Sandbox as a Service 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: $0.090 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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