E2B vs Northflank
E2B
e2b.dev
Northflank
northflank.comSide by side
| Figure | E2B | Northflank |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $150/mo | $2.70/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 6 |
| Spec score · Sandbox Software | 9.1 (#4) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Compliance | E2B maintains a SOC 2 Type II report and signs HIPAA Business Associate Agreements on Enterprise plans. | Northflank states that it has SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance, while ISO 27001/27018 is listed as unavailable. |
| Funding | Crunchbase lists E2B as a private Series A company in San Francisco with 14 investors, including Operator Collective and KAYA. | Northflank announced a $22 million funding raise on 11 November 2024. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code, Codex, CrewAI, Agno, Mastra, Google ADK, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK and MCP servers. | Supported integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, self-hosted Git services, Docker Hub, GHCR, ECR, GAR and ACR. |
| Observability | E2B offers metrics, logs and signed webhooks for sandbox observability. | The platform provides centralized logs, CPU/memory/network/disk metrics, dashboards, alerts and exports to tools such as Datadog and Splunk. |
| Product | E2B runs isolated machines for AI agents, with the cloud infrastructure managed by E2B or deployed in the customer's cloud. | Northflank is a developer platform for building and running complex applications. |
| Rating on G2 | 0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviews. | 4.9 out of 5 from 11 reviews. |
| Support | E2B directs security and compliance requests to [email protected]. | Basic email support is included in all plans, while premium support offers dedicated Slack channels, video calls, faster response times, and service-level agreements with uptime guarantees. |
| What it does | E2B provides isolated Linux machines for AI agents to execute code, process data, browse and use tools. | Northflank is a developer platform for building, deploying and operating services, databases, jobs and GPU workloads on managed or customer-owned infrastructure. |
Plans
Northflank
- Pay-as-you-goFree
- SandboxFree
- nf-compute-10$2.70 a month
- nf-compute-50$12 a month
- nf-compute-100-2$24 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
E2B
E2B provides isolated Linux machines for AI agent sessions, with infrastructure managed by E2B or deployed in a customer’s cloud. Each session runs in its own Firecracker microVM and kernel, without sharing filesystem or memory with another customer’s sandboxes. An API covers execution, networking, storage, secrets, observability, and lifecycle management. The Code Interpreter SDK runs Python or JavaScript and can return charts, tables, and images; Desktop supplies screen, mouse, keyboard, and live streaming for computer-use agents. Listed integrations include CrewAI, Agno, Mastra, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, LangChain Deep Agents, and Vercel AI SDK. E2B Cloud is available in US, EU, and APAC regions. Enterprise BYOC can place sandboxes in a customer’s AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure account. The runtime is Apache-2.0 licensed and self-hostable. Hobby is free, with a one-time $100 usage credit, sessions up to one hour, and 20 concurrent sandboxes. Pro costs $150 a month plus usage costs.
Northflank
Northflank is a developer platform for building and running applications made up of microservices, databases, background jobs, and scheduled tasks. It handles container builds, networking, and orchestration, and offers managed Kubernetes across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Deployments can use Northflank infrastructure, cloud accounts from AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, or CoreWeave, or imported Kubernetes clusters, including bare-metal and on-premises environments. Git integrations include hosted and self-hosted services; the platform also supports container registries and observability tools. Teams can use its UI, CLI, REST API, GitOps, reusable templates, pipelines, and preview environments. Northflank says secrets and files are encrypted at rest with AES-256, secrets are injected at runtime, and managed-cloud workloads use isolation controls. It states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant; ISO 27001/27018 is listed as unavailable. The free Sandbox includes two services, one database, and two cron jobs with always-on compute. A payment method is required before creating resources, including on the free plan. Basic email support is included in all plans.