How were these E2B vs Daytona costs computed?

Both vendors run identical workload profiles (sandbox-hours × vCPU/RAM) through the same engine using each vendor's captured USD list rates; the full methodology is on the agent-sandbox-pricing tool page.

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HEAD-TO-HEAD · PRICES VERIFIED 2026-08-25

E2B vs Daytona

A dead heat on price: both bill $0.0504/vCPU-hr + $0.0162/GiB-hr, so every computed bill ties to the cent ($82.80/mo at the 500 hr × 2 vCPU / 4 GiB reference). The decision is pure platform fit — E2B owns the agent-framework mindshare but hard-caps sessions (≤1h Hobby, ≤24h Pro); Daytona counters with first-class LLM-agent tooling without the same session ceiling.

Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks

100 hr × 1 vCPU / 2 GiB

E2B: $8.28 Daytona: $8.28

Exact tie at this profile

500 hr × 2 vCPU / 4 GiB

E2B: $82.80 Daytona: $82.80

Exact tie at this profile

2,000 hr × 4 vCPU / 8 GiB

E2B: $662.40 Daytona: $662.40

Exact tie at this profile

Rate Card Snapshot

Vendor	$/vCPU-hr	$/GiB-hr	Billing granularity	Concurrency note
E2B	$0.0504	$0.0162	per-second	Hobby ≤20 concurrent sandboxes; Pro ≤100 (extensible to 1,100). Session caps: ≤1h Hobby, ≤24h Pro.
Daytona	$0.0504	$0.0162	per-second	No self-serve concurrency cap published at capture time.

Fit Notes

E2B — Skip if your agents need long-lived environments — Hobby sessions die at 1h and Pro at 24h; this is for short-lived code-running sandboxes.
Daytona — Skip if you want the most battle-tested SDK ecosystem — E2B has the larger community around code-interpreter sandboxes at identical rates.

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