E2B alternatives cheaper than E2B
10 alternatives list a lower price than E2B for a 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox. Each row shows the price, the percentage against E2B and what you give up or keep: isolation, session length and persistence.
Which sandboxes cost less than E2B for the same box?
| Provider | 2 vCPU + 4 GiB / hr | vs E2B | Isolation | Max session | GPU | Self-host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2B (baseline) | $0.166 (source: E2B Pricing) | 1.00x | Firecracker microVM | 1 h (Hobby), 24 h (Pro) | No | Yes |
| Sandbox0 vs E2B | $0.060 (source: sandbox0.ai/pricing) | 0.36x | gVisor | not published | not published | No |
| Northflank vs E2B | $0.067 (source: Northflank Pricing) | 0.40x | Cloud Hypervisor microVM | No time limit (runs until deleted) | Yes | Yes |
| Alibaba Cloud vs E2B | $0.071 (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview) | 0.43x | VM | not published | not published | not published |
| Prime Intellect vs E2B | $0.090 (source: Prime Intellect Sandboxes docs) | 0.54x | microVM | 60 min default, no lifetime limit when set | No | not published |
| Novita vs E2B | $0.117 (source: docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-pricing) | 0.70x | not published | 3 h (Paid), 1 h (Free), up to 4 h on Enterprise | not published | not published |
| Freestyle vs E2B | $0.132 (source: Freestyle Pricing) | 0.80x | VM | No limit stated ("can run forever") | not published | not published |
| Beam vs E2B | $0.140 (source: Beam Pricing) | 0.85x | container | not published | Yes | Yes |
| Together Code vs E2B | $0.149 (source: Together AI Pricing) | 0.90x | microVM | not published | not published | not published |
| Hyperbrowser vs E2B | $0.150 (source: hyperbrowser.ai/pricing) | 0.91x | VM | not published | not published | not published |
| Fly.io Sprites vs E2B | $0.165 (source: Fly.io Sprites) | 0.99x | VM | not published | not published | not published |
List prices for one hour of a 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox at default-region on-demand rates. Cheaper rates sometimes come with a weaker isolation boundary or a preview label; the stay-on-E2B lines on each page say so. Each provider has its own page with every field, source and a pick-or-stay verdict against E2B.
Other E2B comparisons
- Self-hosted E2B alternativesWhich E2B alternatives can I run on my own hardware or cluster?
- E2B alternatives with GPU sandboxesWhich E2B alternatives offer GPU sandboxes?
- E2B alternatives from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba and CloudflareWhich cloud providers sell a first-party E2B alternative?
- E2B alternatives with microVM or VM isolationWhich E2B alternatives give each sandbox its own kernel?