E2B Alternatives

Novita AI matches E2B Pro’s 100 concurrent sandboxes and 24 h sessions without the $150 monthly fee, at $0.11664 versus $0.16560 for a 2 vCPU + 4 GiB hour; Vercel Pro lists the most concurrency at 10,000 sandboxes.

Updated · 11 sources · Methodology

NeedPickWhy
Lowest example costNovita AI$0.11664 / h2
Long sessionsDaytonaNo fixed limit vs 24 h on E2B Pro, Novita AI, Modal and Vercel Pro8
Most concurrent sandboxesVercel Sandbox10,000 · Pro5

Capabilities and serving conditions

ProviderConcurrent sandboxes (compared plan)Maximum session lengthStartup claim (vendor-reported)
E2B1100 · Pro24 h · Pro~150 ms · sandbox spin-up; 2025 case study7
Novita AI2100 · Paid24 h · Paid<200 ms · average launch; checked 2026
Daytona3No sandbox count; Tier 2 pool of 100 vCPU / 200 GiB6No fixed limit8<90 ms · container sandbox creation; checked 202683
Modal4100 · Starter · shared container limit424 h9<1 s · cold start; checked 202610
Vercel Sandbox510,000 · Pro24 h · Prop75 <1 s · snapshot restore; 2026 blog11

Prices and request cost

ProviderCPU ($/vCPU-hour)Memory ($/GiB-hour)Monthly plan fee2 vCPU + 4 GiB for 1 h
E2B · Pro1$0.0504$0.0162$150$0.16560
Novita AI · Paid2$0.03528$0.01152$0$0.11664
Daytona · Tier 23$0.0504$0.0162$0$0.16560
Modal · Starter · non-preemptible4$0.070956$0.024012$0$0.23796
Vercel Sandbox · Pro · iad15$0.128$0.0227633$20$0.34705
One running hour: 2 vCPU + 4 GiB; compute only
Novita AI$0.11664
E2B$0.16560
Daytona$0.16560
Modal$0.23796
Vercel Sandbox$0.34705

Options, strengths and limitations

  1. Novita AI

    The paid concurrency baseline matches E2B Pro while removing its fixed monthly subscription.2

    CPU ($/vCPU-hour)
    0.03528
    Monthly fee ($)
    0
    Concurrent sandboxes (compared plan)
    100

    Strengths

    Per-second billing at $0.03528 per vCPU-hour and $0.01152 per GiB-hour undercuts E2B Pro’s $0.0504 and $0.0162, with no $150 monthly fee.21

    Limitations

    Each sandbox is capped at 8 vCPU and 8 GB, which limits replacing larger custom-sized E2B sandboxes; the free tier allows 5 concurrent sandboxes versus E2B Hobby’s 20.21

  2. Daytona

    Pool-based CPU and memory limits replace E2B’s instance-count quota for differently sized agents.6

    CPU ($/vCPU-hour)
    0.0504
    Monthly fee ($)
    0
    Tier 2 resource pool
    100 vCPU / 200 GiB

    Strengths

    Charges the same $0.0504 vCPU-hour and $0.0162 GiB-hour rates as E2B Pro without a monthly subscription.31

    Limitations

    The Tier 2 ceiling of 400 creates/min limits bursts separately from its CPU pool; eligibility also needs a linked card and $25 top-up.61

  3. Modal

    CPU-heavy execution uses physical-core allocation instead of treating every sandbox as an identical E2B instance.4

    CPU ($/vCPU-hour)
    0.070956
    Monthly fee ($)
    0
    Concurrent sandboxes (compared plan)
    100

    Strengths

    Starter includes $30 of compute credit every month, whereas E2B Hobby’s $100 credit is one-time.41

    Limitations

    The fully active 2 vCPU + 4 GiB example is $0.23796/hour versus E2B’s $0.16560; replacing it with Modal does not reduce this compute-only workload cost.41

  4. Vercel Sandbox

    Pro targets much larger published instance concurrency, with active CPU charging instead of a Pro sandbox subscription alone.5

    CPU ($/vCPU-hour)
    0.128
    Monthly fee ($)
    20
    Concurrent sandboxes (compared plan)
    10,000

    Strengths

    Pro lists 10,000 concurrent sandboxes, 100 times the 100 included with E2B Pro.51

    Limitations

    At continuous full CPU use, its $0.34705/hour example exceeds E2B’s $0.16560; potential savings while waiting for I/O are not part of that active-use example.51

Original product baseline

E2B Pro adds $150/month to runtime charges; its 100 included concurrent sandboxes can expand to 1,100 through paid add-ons. Novita’s paid quota reaches the same 100 instances without that subscription.

Methodology and sources

Vercel publishes memory at $0.0212/GB-hour. For a common GiB basis, 1 GiB = 1.073741824 GB: the converted rate is $0.0227633/GiB-hour and 2 active vCPU + 4 GiB costs $0.34705/hour before plan fees.

Hourly examples assume 2 vCPU + 4 GiB allocated and continuously active for 1 hour, excluding storage, network, plan fees and credits. Modal physical cores count as 2 vCPU each at non-preemptible sandbox rates; Vercel uses its iad1 active-CPU rate at full utilization. Startup figures are vendor-reported and measure different events, so no fastest-start winner is assigned. Startup labels give a dated source’s year, or 2026 when an undated page was checked.

These E2B replacement costs are resource-charge estimates, not measured invoices. Novita AI publishes the comparison from the cited public documentation.

Alternatives to E2B are ordered by the 2 vCPU + 4 GiB continuously active hourly example, then by monthly plan fee; E2B and Daytona have equal compute rates. Concurrency counts, shared CPU pools and startup claims are not interchangeable ranking measures.

  1. E2B · pricing and capacity
  2. Novita AI · pricing and capacity
  3. Daytona · pricing and capacity
  4. Modal · pricing and capacity
  5. Vercel Sandbox · pricing and capacity
  6. Daytona · Tier 2 resource and creation limits
  7. E2B · Manus case study (2025)
  8. Daytona · Sandboxes documentation
  9. Modal · Sandboxes guide
  10. Modal · Sandboxes product page
  11. Vercel · Optimizing snapshot restores (2026)

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