Tensorlake vs E2B

Tensorlake runs sandboxes on Firecracker microVMs, billed on active CPU with a 20% floor. Pay-as-you-go credits list $0.07 a core-hour; Pro ($250 a month, 25,000 compute units included) cuts that to $0.042 and memory to $0.009 a GB-hour, $0.120 an hour for a 2 vCPU / 4 GiB box. A 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox lists at $0.200 an hour on Tensorlake against $0.166 on E2B, 21% more.

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Verified 11 Nov 2026

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E2B baseline sources

Field	-E2B (baseline)	+Tensorlake	Change
2 vCPU + 4 GiB, per hour	$0.166 (source: E2B Pricing)	$0.200 (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	+21%
vCPU, per hour	$0.0504 (source: E2B Pricing)	$0.07 (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	+39%
Memory, per GiB-hour	$0.0162 (source: E2B Pricing)	$0.015 (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	−7%
Billed on	wall clock (source: E2B Pricing)	active CPU (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	differs
Isolation	Firecracker microVM (source: E2B homepage)	Firecracker microVM (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	same
Max session	1 h (Hobby), 24 h (Pro) (source: E2B Pricing)	2 h (Free), 24 h (Usage Credits), unlimited (Pro) (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	differs
Persistence	state kept, pause/resume, memory kept, fork (source: E2B homepage)	state kept, pause/resume (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	differs
Self-host	Yes, Apache-2.0 (source: E2B runtime (GitHub))	not published	Tensorlake: no figure
Your own cloud (BYOC)	Yes (source: E2B homepage)	not published	Tensorlake: no figure
GPU	No (source: E2B Pricing)	Yes (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	differs
SDKs	Python, JavaScript/TypeScript (source: E2B Pricing)	not published	Tensorlake: no figure
SOC 2	Type II (source: E2B homepage)	Type II (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	same
Free tier	Hobby: $0 plan fee, one-time $100 usage credit, 10 concurrent sandboxes, 1-hour sessions. (source: E2B Pricing)	Free forever: 1 sandbox at a time, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 2-hour sessions. (source: Tensorlake Pricing)	differs

Prices 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 Tensorlake instead of E2B when

you need GPUs: Tensorlake documents GPU sandboxes, and E2B lists CPU-only sandboxes.
your agents run longer than E2B's 24-hour Pro session cap: 2 h (Free), 24 h (Usage Credits), unlimited (Pro).
your agents idle between tool calls: Tensorlake bills CPU only while it is busy, while E2B meters wall-clock time.
you are prototyping: Free forever: 1 sandbox at a time, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 2-hour sessions.

Stay on E2B when

pause has to keep running memory as well as files: E2B's pause saves both, and Tensorlake does not state memory state in our data.
price decides it: Tensorlake lists $0.200 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 Tensorlake facts

Source per value

Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.: Firecracker microVM 1
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.: $0.07 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.: $0.015 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).: $250.00 1
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.: Free forever: 1 sandbox at a time, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 2-hour sessions. 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.: 2 h (Free), 24 h (Usage Credits), unlimited (Pro) 1
Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).: Yes 1
Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.: Yes 1
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.: Yes 1
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).: Not published
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.: 16 1
Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.: 64 1
Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.: 1 (Free), 100 (Usage Credits), 1,000 (Pro) 1
SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.: Type II 1
HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).: Yes 1
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.: $0.20 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.: 1.21 1
Status Preview, experimental, beta, sunset or self-hosting caveats the vendor documents.: Not published

Pricing model: usage
From: $0.07 active core-hour
Pricing note: Usage Credits: $0.07/core-h active CPU (20% minimum), $0.015/GB-h RAM; Pro ($250 incl. 25,000 CU): $0.042 and $0.009. H100 $3.95/GPU-h. Pricing checked 2026-11-09.

Sources

Tensorlake Pricing accessed 2026-11-11

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