e2b alternatives

e2b provides secure, ephemeral sandboxes (Firecracker microVMs) for AI agent code execution. Each sandbox spins up in <200ms with full Linux environment, Python/Node/etc preinstalled. Full e2b record →

  1. 1 Coder.com AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 14k released 2026-10-06 AGPL-3.0 (Community); proprietary Premium / AI… Compare with e2b →

  2. 2 Modal Sandboxes AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 530 released 2026-10-16 Apache-2.0 (client SDK only; platform… Compare with e2b →

  3. 3 Daytona AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 15 released 2026-10-23 Apache-2.0 (SDKs in daytona/clients; CLI under… Compare with e2b →

  4. 4 Browserless.io AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS — Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 14k SSPL-1.0 + Browserless Commercial License… Compare with e2b →

  5. 5 Workato AI (Workflow Bot Builder) AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with e2b →

  6. 6 Anchor (Anchor Browser) AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with e2b →

  7. 7 SandBase Harness AI sandbox & runtime environments

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · also open source · also self-hostable · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 640 released 2026-08-30 Apache-2.0 Compare with e2b →

  8. 8 StackBlitz WebContainers AI sandbox & runtime environments ⚠ stale — no commits since 2025-04

    also in AI sandbox & runtime environments · same memory unit (file) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 4.7k released 2026-04-14 Compare with e2b →

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