E2B · Independent

E2B

A safe cloud sandbox for your agent's code. Open-source cloud sandboxes that give your own agent a safe computer to run code in.

✓ Last verified October 15, 2026 from official sources

Pricing

Hobby $0 with $100 in one-time credits; Pro $150/mo plus usage. Usage costs $0.000014 per vCPU-second and $0.0000045 per GiB-second, and storage is included. Enterprise has a $3,000/mo minimum.

Best for

Developers adding code execution to an agent.

Privacy · Skill

E2B cloud. Bring-your-own-cloud is available on Enterprise. Skill level: Advanced.

What it's great at

Running untrusted, agent-written code

What it can do

Sandboxes with 1 to 8 vCPUs and up to 8 GiB of RAM, started from the SDK
Custom templates so every sandbox starts with your dependencies
Up to 24-hour sessions and 100+ concurrent sandboxes on Pro

Example tasks to try

Let a data agent run pandas on uploaded CSVs in a throwaway sandbox.

Start in 5 minutes

Sign up at e2b.dev and create an API key
Install the SDK with "pip install e2b" or "npm install e2b"
CommandPaste this into Terminal (Mac) or PowerShell (Windows).
```
pip install e2b
```
CommandPaste this into Terminal (Mac) or PowerShell (Windows).
```
npm install e2b
```
Create a sandbox and run a command in it

Go to E2B's official page →

Watch out for

Hobby sessions stop after 1 hour, and sandboxes have no GPUs.

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E2B pricing

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