
Best E2B Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared
The table lists tools that share a category with E2B, picked from the highest scoring and listed closest matches first: most shared categories, then the most of E2B's features in those categories, then the most audiences both suit, then our score. Each score is for the category that alternative shares with E2B. The tools ranked just above and below E2B in AI Software are listed further down. Costs are estimates for monthly billing based on each tool's listed plans. Our methodology
| # | Tool | Score | Free tier | Starting price | Est. monthly cost | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 6.7/10in AI Software | Yes | $150/mo | FreeHobby | ||
| 1 | ![]() Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.
| 7.6/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree plan | |
| 2 | ![]() Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.
| 7.3/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeSandbox | |
| 3 | ![]() Baseten is an AI inference platform that lets engineering teams serve, scale and train open-weight and custom models on managed multi-cloud GPUs, billed per minute.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 4 | ![]() BentoML is an open-source model serving framework with a managed inference platform (Bento Cloud) for deploying and scaling AI models on GPUs, in its cloud or yours.
| 7/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeOpen Source (Self-Hosted) | |
| 5 | ![]() fal is a generative media platform that gives developers API access to 1,000+ image, video, audio and 3D models, plus serverless GPUs for running their own models.
| 7/10in AI Software | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 6 | H Hugging Face Inference EndpointsManaged service from Hugging Face that deploys AI models from the Hub to dedicated, autoscaling CPU or GPU instances, billed by the hour, for developers and ML teams.
| 6.9/10in AI Software | No | $9/mo | $200/moTeam | |
| 7 | ![]() Bare metal cloud provider that offers dedicated servers, GPU servers and virtual machines on demand, billed hourly or monthly, for developers and infrastructure-heavy businesses.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | No | $18/mo | $18/moVirtual Machine vm.micro | |
| 8 | ![]() Open-source and enterprise system for running, scheduling and scaling AI training, inference and batch jobs across Kubernetes, Slurm, on-prem and 20+ clouds.
| 7.6/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeOpen Source | |
| 9 | ![]() Vercel Sandbox runs untrusted or AI agent-generated code in isolated Firecracker Linux microVMs on demand. It is aimed at developers building coding agents, code playgrounds and preview tools.
| 7.3/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeHobby | |
| 10 | ![]() DigitalOcean is a developer-focused cloud platform offering Droplet VMs, managed Kubernetes, databases, object storage, App Platform and GPU compute for startups and small businesses.
| 7.1/10in AI Software | No | $4/mo | $4/moBasic Droplet 512 MiB | |
| 11 | ![]() Luxembourg-based edge and cloud provider offering CDN, virtual machines, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, object storage, AI GPU cloud, and DDoS/WAF security for businesses.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | Yes | €390/mo | €390/moDDoS Protection Start | |
| 12 | ![]() Cerebrium is a serverless CPU and GPU platform where developers deploy, autoscale and run AI models and apps, with compute billed by the second.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | Yes | $100/mo | $100/moStandard | |
| 13 | ![]() Saturn Cloud is a hosted and enterprise platform that gives data science and AI teams hourly CPU and GPU compute, notebooks, jobs, deployments and model inference endpoints.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree | |
| 14 | ![]() Crusoe Cloud is a GPU-focused AI cloud that offers NVIDIA and AMD GPU instances, managed Kubernetes, storage and managed inference to AI teams and enterprises.
| 6.6/10in AI Software | No | Contact sales | Contact for pricing | |
| 15 | A Amazon SageMakerAWS's managed machine learning platform for building, training, and hosting ML and foundation models on pay-as-you-go cloud instances and serverless endpoints.
| 6.8/10in AI Software | Yes | Contact sales | FreeFree Tier (first 2 months) |
Prices from each vendor's published plans, last updated November 2026. How we collect prices
Free alternatives to E2B
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Free plan, no user limit listedAmazon Web Services (AWS) pricing

- NorthflankFree plan, no user limit listedNorthflank pricing

- BentoMLFree plan, no user limit listedBentoML pricing

- SkyPilotFree plan, no user limit listedSkyPilot pricing

- Vercel SandboxFree plan, no user limit listedVercel Sandbox pricing

- GcoreFree plan, no user limit listedGcore pricing

- CerebriumFree for up to 3 usersCerebrium pricing

- Saturn CloudFree plan, no user limit listedSaturn Cloud pricing

- AAmazon SageMakerFree plan, no user limit listedAmazon SageMaker pricing
Ranked near E2B in AI Software
E2B is #209 in AI Software by our score. These are the tools ranked just above and below it. See E2B in the AI Software list
| Rank | Tool | Score | Starting price | Cost for 10 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #206 | ![]() | 6.7/10in AI Software | $250/mo | $250/moTeam |
| #207 | ![]() | 6.7/10in AI Software | Not listed | FreeOpen Source |
| #208 | ![]() | 6.7/10in AI Software | $85/user/mo | $850/moPro |
| #210 | ![]() | 6.7/10in AI Software | Contact sales | FreeFree |
| #211 | ![]() | 6.6/10in AI Software | Contact sales | Contact for pricing |
| #212 | ![]() | 6.6/10in AI Software | $25/user/mo | $250/moSupport Team |
E2B alternatives FAQs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the closest match to E2B on our list, with a score of 7.6/10 on our AI Software criteria. Where it beats E2B: higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 4/10).
Yes. The closest matches with a free plan are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Northflank and BentoML.
E2B is the cheapest of the tools listed here priced in USD for 10 users: free on its Hobby plan. The cheapest alternative, Amazon Web Services (AWS), costs the same.
The closest matches that score higher than E2B are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Northflank and Baseten, each in the category it shares with E2B: Amazon Web Services (AWS) 7.6/10 against 6.7/10 in AI Software; Northflank 7.3/10 against 6.7/10 in AI Software; Baseten 6.8/10 against 6.7/10 in AI Software.










