HEAD-TO-HEAD · PRICES VERIFIED 2026-08-25
E2B vs Northflank
Northflank is the computed price floor at every workload: $0.01667/vCPU-hr + $0.00833/GiB-hr makes its bill exactly 2.5× under E2B's at identical profiles ($33.33 vs $82.80/mo at the reference). E2B's premium buys sandbox-specific ergonomics — purpose-built SDKs, snapshotting, and the integrations agent frameworks ship with — while Northflank prices generic container hosting near cost.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
100 hr × 1 vCPU / 2 GiB
E2B: $8.28 Northflank: $3.33
Cheaper: Northflank500 hr × 2 vCPU / 4 GiB
E2B: $82.80 Northflank: $33.33
Cheaper: Northflank2,000 hr × 4 vCPU / 8 GiB
E2B: $662.40 Northflank: $266.64
Cheaper: NorthflankRate 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. |
| Northflank | $0.0167 | $0.0083 | per-second | No hard concurrency cap published; predefined plans from 0.1 shared vCPU / 256 MB to dedicated GPU tiers, custom plans available. |
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.
- Northflank — Skip if you need agent-native session semantics (snapshot/pause-resume) — Northflank is general container platform pricing applied to long-running services and jobs, not a purpose-built agent sandbox SDK.
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