E2B vs Upstash Box
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- E2B: No
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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 the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Upstash Box fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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