E2B Free Hobby Tier & $100 Usage Credits
- Free money amount
- $100
- Duration
- One-time credits
- Expiry date
- No fixed end date
- Updated
- Jan 1, 2026
Overview
E2B provides dedicated, secure cloud sandboxes designed specifically for AI agents, code interpreters, and autonomous developer workflows. Under the Hobby Tier, developers receive $100 in one-time usage credits without needing to supply a credit card upfront.
The service enables LLMs and AI applications to run untrusted code in isolated microVM environments, offering complete programmatic control through official Python and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs.
Offer Details & Specifications
The Free Hobby tier provides full access to E2B's core execution infrastructure with the following features and limits:
- Free Credit Allowance: $100 one-time usage credit granted upon sign-up.
- Credit Card Requirement: No credit card required to start.
- Sandbox Concurrency: Up to 20 concurrent sandboxes running at the same time.
- Session Lifespan: Sandbox sessions run up to 1 hour continuously.
- Hardware Allocation: Sandboxes can be configured with 1-8 vCPUs and 1-8 GiB RAM; the default is 2 vCPUs and 4 GiB.
- Storage: 10 GiB of sandbox storage included at no extra cost.
- Billing Unit: Metered per second of active sandbox execution — 0.0000045 per GiB-second of RAM (about $0.000046/s on the default 2 vCPU + 4 GiB configuration).
- CPU Only: No GPU sandboxes are offered.
Key Capabilities
- Isolated Execution: Execute arbitrary, untrusted model-generated code safely within isolated Linux containers.
- Pre-configured Environments: Built-in runtimes, standard system utilities, and data science tooling.
- Bidirectional File Management: Seamlessly stream, upload, and extract files between client workflows and remote sandboxes.
- Developer SDKs: First-party libraries for Python (
pip install e2b) and Node.js (npm i e2b). - Agent Framework Support: Native integration with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LlamaIndex.
How to Claim
- Sign up at the E2B Console with GitHub or Google authentication (or start from the pricing page via Start for Free).
- Access your dashboard to obtain your API key and begin building immediately — the quickstart at docs.e2b.dev/quickstart walks through the first sandbox.