Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs E2B
AWS’s managed code-execution tool for agents: each session runs in a dedicated microVM with pre-built Python, JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes, S3 access and CloudTrail logging. For teams building agents on AWS. A 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox lists at $0.217 an hour on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter against $0.166 on E2B, 31% more.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter against E2B, line by line
E2B baseline sourcesPrices are list prices for one hour of a 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox: 2 × the vCPU rate + 4 × the memory rate. Each value links to the page it came from; not published means the vendor states no figure. How we compare.
Pick Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter instead of E2B when
- your agents idle between tool calls: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter bills CPU only while it is busy, while E2B meters wall-clock time.
- your stack already runs on that cloud: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter is a first-party service there, so identity, billing and networking stay in one place.
- you are prototyping: General AWS Free Tier: up to $200 credits for new AWS customers (not Code Interpreter-specific).
Stay on E2B when
- pause has to keep running memory as well as files: E2B's pause saves both, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter does not state memory state in our data.
- you need a SOC 2 report: E2B states Type II, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter states none in our data.
- price decides it: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter lists $0.217 an hour for the 2 vCPU / 4 GiB box against $0.166 on E2B at full CPU; idle time between tool calls bills less.
- you want managed cloud, your own cloud account and self-hosting from one vendor: E2B offers all three, with BYOC on its Enterprise plan.
All Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter facts
Source per value- Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.
- microVM 3
- Other isolation options Alternative runtimes the vendor offers besides the default (e.g. VM runtime, gVisor for GPU).
- Not published
- Deployment Managed cloud service, self-hosted software, or both.
- managed 1
- Billing basis What the meter counts: wall-clock allocated resources, active CPU only, requests/plan quota, session-hours, or free software.
- active CPU 1
- vCPU price $/vCPU-hr Published on-demand CPU rate normalised to USD per vCPU-hour (per-second rates multiplied by 3,600; per-core rates divided by vCPUs per core where the vendor defines it). Lowest public tier, default region. 0 means the vendor states no separate CPU charge.
- $0.0895 1
- Memory price $/GiB-hr Published memory rate normalised to USD per GiB-hour (GB treated as GiB where the vendor does not distinguish). 0 means the vendor states memory is free.
- $0.0095 1
- Sandbox from $/sandbox-hr Smallest published per-sandbox hourly price, where the vendor publishes one.
- Not published
- Paid plan from $/mo Cheapest paid platform plan fee (before usage).
- Not published
- Free tier A free plan, free monthly allowance or sign-up credit exists.
- Yes 1
- Free tier detail What the free tier or credit includes, as published.
- General AWS Free Tier: up to $200 credits for new AWS customers (not Code Interpreter-specific). 1
- Cold start ms Vendor-published create/boot time in milliseconds (a vendor claim, not our benchmark). Only filled when the vendor publishes a number; see startup_claim for percentile and conditions.
- Not published
- Resume time ms Vendor-published resume-from-pause/standby/snapshot time in milliseconds.
- Not published
- Startup claim The vendor's startup/resume wording with conditions, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- Not published
- Max session length Longest single sandbox session by plan, as published.
- 15 min default, extendable to 8 h 3
- Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).
- Not published
- Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.
- Not published
- Memory state kept Pause/hibernate preserves running memory state, not only the filesystem.
- Not published
- Fork / branch A running or snapshotted sandbox can be cloned into new sandboxes.
- Not published
- GPU GPU sandboxes are offered.
- Not published
- Self-host Can run on your own hardware or cluster (open source or licensed).
- Not published
- BYOC / VPC Vendor-managed deployment inside your own cloud account.
- Not published
- Open source Core sandbox runtime is published under an open-source licence.
- Not published
- Licence Open-source licence of the runtime, if any.
- Not published
- SDKs / languages Official SDK languages (or supported execution languages where noted).
- Executes Python, JavaScript, TypeScript 1
- Regions Published regions or region count.
- Not published
- Max vCPU per sandbox vCPU Largest published vCPU count per sandbox on any self-serve or enterprise plan.
- Not published
- Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.
- Not published
- Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.
- Not published
- SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.
- Not published
- HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).
- Not published
- 2 vCPU + 4 GiB per hour $/hr Hourly list price of one 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox: 2 x the vCPU rate + 4 x the memory rate, from the two published rates. Left empty for self-hosted software and for vendors without both rates. Vendors that bill CPU only while busy (Vercel, Cloudflare, Upstash, Tensorlake, AWS AgentCore) cost less for idle agents than this shows.
- $0.2168 1
- Price vs E2B x E2B The 2 vCPU + 4 GiB hourly price divided by E2B's own ($0.1656 at $0.000014/vCPU-s and $0.0000045/GiB-s). Under 1 is cheaper than E2B.
- 1.31 1
- Status Preview, experimental, beta, sunset or self-hosting caveats the vendor documents.
- Not published
- Pricing model
- usage
- From
- $0.0895 vCPU-hour
- Pricing note
- $0.0895/vCPU-h on actual CPU consumption and $0.00945/GB-h on peak memory, billed per second from microVM boot to session termination (I/O wait and idle are free when no background process runs). Files up to 100 MB inline, 5 GB via S3. Pricing checked 2026-11-09.
Sources
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Pricing accessed 2026-11-09
- AgentCore Code Interpreter developer guide accessed 2026-11-09
- AgentCore Code Interpreter session characteristics accessed 2026-11-11
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter in the E2B comparisons
- E2B alternatives from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba and CloudflareWhich cloud providers sell a first-party E2B alternative? 8 listed.
- E2B alternatives with microVM or VM isolationWhich E2B alternatives give each sandbox its own kernel? 26 listed.
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