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E2B vs Daytona: pricing and workload calculator
Similar CPU and memory meters do not guarantee the same bill. Minimum allocations, retained disk, session length and plan eligibility can change the result.
Pricing evidence reviewed 2026-09-07. Estimates use the published catalog and its disclosed assumptions, not a live quote.
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100 new sandboxes per month, averaging 60.0 minutes each, with no resumes or suspended hours. Persistent disk may still bill for the month. Requests round up to a valid single-sandbox allocation.
These estimates bill allocated resources during running time. CPU busy percentage alone does not reduce the bill. Change running hours or requested resources to compare costs.
| Provider | Monthly USD | Billed vCPU | Billed memory GB | Billed disk GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2B | $11.08 | 1 | 4.001 | 5.000 |
| Daytona | $11.07 | 1 | 4.000 | 5.000 |
Gross usage excludes plan fees and credits. Taxes, egress, regional multipliers and unmodeled account usage are excluded. Eligibility uses average session duration; it cannot prove your longest run.
Customize this comparisonWhat can change the decision?
- Compare the billed memory allocation, especially for small requests.
- Check retained disk charges and whether your application needs memory-preserving pause.
- Use plan-adjusted mode to test session eligibility and recurring plan costs.
When does the cheaper option change?
Gross usage USD per month. Only the selected axis changes; resources, creation counts, resumes and suspension remain fixed. Always-on references still bill 730 hours. Gaps mean the workload cannot be priced. Crossover ranges are sampled estimates, including any plan or eligibility discontinuities.
Solid: E2B · Dashed: Daytona
No cost-order change in the sampled comparable range.
Show sampled costs
| Running hours | E2B | Daytona |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0h | $0.111 | $0.111 |
| 19.2h | $2.13 | $2.13 |
| 37.5h | $4.15 | $4.15 |
| 55.7h | $6.17 | $6.17 |
| 73.9h | $8.19 | $8.18 |
| 92.1h | $10.20 | $10.20 |
| 110.3h | $12.22 | $12.22 |
| 128.6h | $14.24 | $14.24 |
| 146.8h | $16.26 | $16.26 |
| 165.0h | $18.28 | $18.28 |
| 183.3h | $20.30 | $20.29 |
| 201.5h | $22.32 | $22.31 |
| 219.7h | $24.34 | $24.33 |
| 237.9h | $26.36 | $26.35 |
| 256.1h | $28.37 | $28.37 |
| 274.4h | $30.39 | $30.39 |
| 292.6h | $32.41 | $32.41 |
| 310.8h | $34.43 | $34.42 |
| 329.1h | $36.45 | $36.44 |
| 347.3h | $38.47 | $38.46 |
| 365.5h | $40.49 | $40.48 |
| 383.7h | $42.51 | $42.50 |
| 401.9h | $44.52 | $44.52 |
| 420.2h | $46.54 | $46.53 |
| 438.4h | $48.56 | $48.55 |
| 456.6h | $50.58 | $50.57 |
| 474.9h | $52.60 | $52.59 |
| 493.1h | $54.62 | $54.61 |
| 511.3h | $56.64 | $56.63 |
| 529.5h | $58.66 | $58.64 |
| 547.8h | $60.67 | $60.66 |
| 566.0h | $62.69 | $62.68 |
| 584.2h | $64.71 | $64.70 |
| 602.4h | $66.73 | $66.72 |
| 620.6h | $68.75 | $68.74 |
| 638.9h | $70.77 | $70.76 |
| 657.1h | $72.79 | $72.77 |
| 675.3h | $74.81 | $74.79 |
| 693.5h | $76.82 | $76.81 |
| 711.8h | $78.84 | $78.83 |
| 730.0h | $80.86 | $80.85 |
Billing assumptions and first-party sources
E2B
The independent 100-concurrent-sandbox benchmark measured 1.09s median time to interactive. E2B says it charges per second of a running sandbox; no separately listed creation, pause, or resume meter is included. E2B’s current first-party architecture and SDK document Firecracker microVMs, full memory snapshots by default, traffic-triggered resume, configurable domain and IP egress controls, persistent volumes, self-hosting on AWS or GCP, and brokered workload-identity credentials resolved by the egress proxy; callers may also inject ordinary environment variables. Plan-adjusted mode selects free Hobby only when the implied average new-sandbox session is at most one hour and disk is at most 10 GiB; otherwise an eligible workload requires the published $150 Pro plan. Aggregate inputs cannot prove the longest individual session, and no resume reset is assumed. The current rate table labels every listed CPU and RAM configuration Hobby / Pro even though a separate Pro feature bullet says custom CPU and RAM; this model follows the explicit rate table. No first-party GPU support statement was found, so GPU remains unknown rather than being reported as unsupported.
Isolation: Firecracker microVM. Evidence reviewed 2026-09-07.
Official pricing · Resource constraints · Implementation evidence
Daytona
Reserved CPU and RAM bill while started and during creating, starting, stopping, and pausing transitions; reserved disk above the first 5 GiB also bills while stopped or paused. The calculator excludes transition time because the workload has no transition-duration input. Container sandboxes preserve disk on stop but not RAM; memory-preserving pause applies only to VM sandboxes. The calculator conservatively uses the standard 1 to 4 vCPU, 1 to 8 GiB RAM, and 1 to 10 GiB disk profile published in Daytona’s first-party resource guide. Daytona’s current limits page says per-sandbox ceilings are organization-specific, so larger account allocations are not modeled. All represented usage meters bill per second. The advertised $200 trial credit is temporary and excluded.
Isolation: Default Container class; Linux and Windows VM classes also available. Evidence reviewed 2026-09-07.
How to use this comparison
First check that the workload fits the provider’s resource and lifecycle limits. Then compare gross usage and the eligible plan total. A lower modeled price does not establish equivalent persistence, isolation, reliability or performance. Unknown and unsupported results are kept out of numeric rankings.