E2B vs Together Sandbox

E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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E2B

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

E2B
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Largest sandbox
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
SDKs
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
E2B: $0.0504
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
E2B: $0.0162
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
E2B: Free
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
E2B: $150 / month
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
E2B: Per second
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
E2B: 24 hours
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
E2B: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
E2B: Up to 1,100
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
E2B: Firecracker microVM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
E2B: No
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
E2B:
Together Sandbox:
Pause and resume
E2B:
Together Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
E2B: Apache-2.0
Together Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
E2B: Enterprise plan
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

E2B
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
E2B: $0.083
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
E2B: $0.166
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
E2B: $0.331
Together Sandbox: $0.298

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which 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, MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 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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