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E2B alternatives

E2B takes a cut of your revenue instead of charging a flat price. Here's what the 4 other GPU cloud platforms we track cost. The closest match, Vercel, covers 80% of what E2B does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.

What E2B does

Core: Agent code sandboxes, API, CLI and SDKs.

Important: Sandbox snapshots and long sessions, Bring your own container, Open source and own cloud.

Also has: Hosted notebooks and IDEs (partly), Batch jobs and queues (partly), Persistent volumes (partly).

Alternatives to E2B at 100 H100 hours a month, best match first

  • Runpod: $199/mo Cheapest H100 is Community Cloud; Secure is $289/mo (Pay-as-you-go Pods, Community Cloud: 1x H100 PCIe 80 GB at $1.99/hr for 100 hours a month, with no plan fee or credit.). It covers 77% of E2B; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes (partly), Sandbox snapshots and long sessions (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly). Free plan: none. Last price hike: Sep 2026.
  • Modal: $434.93/mo Net of $30/mo Starter credit; preemptible list rates (Starter (free plan): $0 fee, $30/mo compute credit applied, base (no-premium) rates). It covers 77% of E2B; missing or partial: API, CLI and SDKs (partly), Sandbox snapshots and long sessions (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly). Free plan: Starter: $0 base fee with $30/mo of compute included, 3 seats, and up to 100 containers and 10 GPUs running at once.. Last price hike: Oct 2026.
  • Hugging Face: $450/mo Ref: 1x H100 on Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hr (Free account, no subscription; 1x H100 80GB on Inference Endpoints, billed hourly.). It covers 70% of E2B; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes (partly), Sandbox snapshots and long sessions, Open source and own cloud (partly). Free plan: Free Hub sign-up; CPU Basic Spaces and ZeroGPU quota at no charge (no plan card on the page)..
  • Replicate: $549/mo Usage-based; no plan fee. Endpoint assumes L40S (Pay-as-you-go, 1x Nvidia H100 GPU at $5.49/hr). It covers 40% of E2B; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes, Sandbox snapshots and long sessions, Bring your own container (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly), Hosted notebooks and IDEs. Free plan: none.

Other kinds of products that cover part of E2B

  • Vercel (Hosting): covers 80% of E2B; missing or partial: Bring your own container (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly), Hosted notebooks and IDEs
  • Cloudflare Workers (Hosting): covers 63% of E2B; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes (partly), Sandbox snapshots and long sessions (partly), Bring your own container (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly), Hosted notebooks and IDEs
  • DigitalOcean Apps (Hosting): covers 47% of E2B; missing or partial: Agent code sandboxes, Sandbox snapshots and long sessions, Bring your own container (partly), Open source and own cloud (partly), Hosted notebooks and IDEs

Prices at every size

  • E2B: 100 H100 hours a month not offered, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint not offered, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month $165.60/mo (CPU-only sandboxes: no H100 or GPU endpoint offered)
  • Runpod: 100 H100 hours a month $199/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $116.80/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Cheapest H100 is Community Cloud; Secure is $289/mo)
  • Modal: 100 H100 hours a month $434.93/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $715.62/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month $207.96/mo (Net of $30/mo Starter credit; preemptible list rates)
  • Hugging Face: 100 H100 hours a month $450/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $584/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Ref: 1x H100 on Inference Endpoints at $4.50/hr)
  • Replicate: 100 H100 hours a month $549/mo, one always-on 24 GB GPU endpoint $2,562.30/mo, 1,000 agent sandbox hours a month not offered (Usage-based; no plan fee. Endpoint assumes L40S)

Prices are USD per month at on-demand, non-interruptible rates for three fixed workloads: 100 hours on one H100 80 GB GPU, one 24 GB-class GPU serving a model 24/7 (730 hours), and 1,000 hours of 2 vCPU / 4 GB agent sandboxes. They include required plan fees and separately billed CPU and RAM, net of recurring monthly credits; a dash means the product does not do that job.

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