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Every sandboxed command starts with an empty environment plus nine copied variables (LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LOGNAME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, TZ, USER), so supervisor API keys are not inherited unless passed explicitly with `--env` or `session.exec.env` (https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/docs/policy.md).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free. Apache-2.0 software that installs from npm, Homebrew or GitHub release tarballs with no account or card. There is no hosted service and nothing to buy. Compute is the owner's own machine (checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source. Local open-source software with no paid endpoint (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/README.md", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.code", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-auth", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "rust", "cli", "json-rpc", "linux", "macos", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 825, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 60, "reliability": 37, "schema": 68, "security": 47, "transparency": 40 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.", "bestFor": "A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0, free and local, installing from npm, Homebrew or checksummed release tarballs for Linux and macOS on x64 and arm64", "Every command's file changes can be diffed, committed or aborted, with a checkpoint chain and conflict-checked commits", "Sandboxed commands start with an empty environment plus nine named variables, and common secret paths such as `.env`, `.ssh` and `*.pem` are denied by default", "One-line transactions (`deltabox run --commit` or `--abort`) and a line-delimited JSON-RPC protocol over stdio with 15 methods", "No telemetry or analytics calls were found in the source" ], "weaknesses": [ "Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration", "The default network mode `allow_audit` permits unrestricted networking, and no network audit log was found in the source", "The agent install prompt tells the agent it can star the repository through the user's authenticated GitHub CLI", "The only CI workflow builds release binaries and runs `--version` smoke checks on tags. The 288 test functions in the repository are not run in CI", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or disclosure policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Skip step 5 of install-prompt.txt. Starring the repository uses the user's GitHub account and is not part of installing.", "Pass `--commit` or `--abort` to `deltabox run` explicitly. The child's exit status is preserved after that decision.", "Wrap redirection and pipes in `sh -c '...'`. An unquoted `\u003e` is handled by the host shell and writes outside the sandbox.", "Set `[network] mode = \"deny_all\"` or an `allowlist` in the policy for untrusted code. The default allows every destination.", "Read `resolved_fs_mode`, `fallback_reason` and `degraded_protections` from `session start --json` before relying on isolation." ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 60, "reliability": 37, "schema": 68, "security": 47, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install --global deltabox-lite", "headless": { "abort": "deltabox run --abort -- sh -c 'printf \"sandboxed\\n\" \u003e\u003e notes.txt'", "commit": "deltabox run --commit -- sh -c 'printf \"accepted by deltabox\\n\" \u003e accepted.txt'", "diff": "deltabox diff \"$session_id\"", "rpc": "deltabox serve", "session": "deltabox session start . --json" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.fs", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deltabox-lite" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named in the repository, the licence or the npm records. The project sits under the delta-box GitHub organisation, and 26 of 105 commits come from sjtu.edu.cn addresses. The npm packages are published by the account xeonliu.", "The project has no website, terms or privacy policy. The README and the docs folder are the only documentation.", "The repository has no SECURITY.md, and there is no project domain to hold a security.txt.", "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.json", "live": { "slug": "deltabox-lite", "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:09:46.794533554Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0d8c10328fc8" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:09:46.794533554Z" } }, "answer": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "e2b", "name": "E2B", "vendor": "E2B", "vendorUrl": "https://e2b.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Firecracker microVM sandboxes for agent code, driven from Python and JavaScript SDKs, a CLI or a REST API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/e2b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/e2b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/e2b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/e2b.json", "repo": "https://github.com/e2b-dev/E2B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.e2b.app", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "e2b" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "e2b" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@e2b/code-interpreter" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "e2b-code-interpreter" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-API-Key` header on api.e2b.app. The SDKs and CLI read `E2B_API_KEY`. SDKs from 2.46.0 leave key validation to the server. `E2B_ACCESS_TOKEN` was switched off on 1 August 2026. Code inside a sandbox can get short-lived workload identity tokens instead of long-lived secrets, and stored secrets can be filled into outbound HTTPS headers by the egress proxy without entering the sandbox.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Hobby is free with a one-time $100 usage credit and no card, sandboxes up to 1 hour and 20 running at once. Pro is $150 a month plus usage, sandboxes up to 24 hours and 100 concurrent (up to 1,100 with add-ons). Enterprise starts at $3,000 a month and adds BYOC. Compute is billed per second while a sandbox runs, $0.000014 a vCPU-second and $0.0000045 a GiB-second of RAM, so the default 2 vCPU, 4 GiB sandbox costs $0.1656 an hour. 10 GiB of storage free on Hobby, 20 GiB on Pro (https://e2b.dev/pricing). Paused sandboxes aren't billed, and when the credit runs out the account is blocked until a card is added (https://docs.e2b.dev/billing.md).", "priceSummary": "$0.0504 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 13400, "npmWeekly": 2217920, "pypiWeekly": 1408079, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.e2b.dev", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.e2b.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.e2b.dev/openapi-public.yaml", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist", "sandbox.browser" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "open-source", "self-hosted", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 241, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 92, "security": 62, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Firecracker microVM with its own kernel per sandbox. 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The default is 5 minutes", "Pause rather than kill when you'll come back. Resume takes about a second and nothing is billed while paused", "Use `Secret.fill` in network transforms instead of passing API keys into the sandbox environment", "Pace sandbox creation. Hobby allows 1 a second and 20 running at once", "Move to the v2 sandbox endpoints. 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DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or E2B?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. E2B has a hosted endpoint at https://api.e2b.app.", "question": "Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and E2B without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). E2B is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are DeltaBox Lite and E2B open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it" ], "goodFor": "A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call.", "slug": "deltabox-lite", "watchFor": "Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 37", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 68", "Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 47", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 43", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 40" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Code interpreters and agent workspaces that pause and resume with memory, and teams that may want to self-host later.", "slug": "e2b", "watchFor": "Two major incidents over an hour in September 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Two major incidents over an hour in September 2026, on sandbox creation and on creating from snapshots." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.min.md" }, "markdown": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do sandbox fs.\n\n- DeltaBox Lite: grade D, 52.3/100, rank #825 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.json\n- E2B: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #241 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/e2b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/e2b.json\n- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md\n- All 153 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeltaBox Lite (D)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration\n\n### E2B (B)\n\nGood for: Code interpreters and agent workspaces that pause and resume with memory, and teams that may want to self-host later.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 37\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 68\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 47\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 43\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Two major incidents over an hour in September 2026, on sandbox creation and on creating from snapshots\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeltaBox Lite | E2B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 60 | E2B +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 92 | E2B +24 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 65 | DeltaBox Lite +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 62 | E2B +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 50 | DeltaBox Lite +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 88 | E2B +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 68 | E2B +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.3 · D** | **68.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeltaBox Lite | E2B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | E2B |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.e2b.app` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-12-04 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-04-08 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 13k stars, 2.2M npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeltaBox Lite.** DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.\n\n**E2B.** Firecracker microVM with its own kernel per sandbox. Two major incidents over an hour in September 2026, on sandbox creation and on creating from snapshots.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeltaBox Lite\n\n1. Skip step 5 of install-prompt.txt. Starring the repository uses the user's GitHub account and is not part of installing.\n2. Pass `--commit` or `--abort` to `deltabox run` explicitly. The child's exit status is preserved after that decision.\n3. Wrap redirection and pipes in `sh -c '...'`. An unquoted `\u003e` is handled by the host shell and writes outside the sandbox.\n4. Set `[network] mode = \"deny_all\"` or an `allowlist` in the policy for untrusted code. The default allows every destination.\n5. Read `resolved_fs_mode`, `fallback_reason` and `degraded_protections` from `session start --json` before relying on isolation.\n\n### E2B\n\n1. Set a timeout when you create a sandbox. The default is 5 minutes\n2. Pause rather than kill when you'll come back. Resume takes about a second and nothing is billed while paused\n3. Use `Secret.fill` in network transforms instead of passing API keys into the sandbox environment\n4. Pace sandbox creation. Hobby allows 1 a second and 20 running at once\n5. Move to the v2 sandbox endpoints. SDK 2.51.0 and later use them by default\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or E2B?\n\nE2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and E2B without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. E2B has a hosted endpoint at https://api.e2b.app.\n\n### Are DeltaBox Lite and E2B open source?\n\nYes. DeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). E2B is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deltabox-lite\", \"b\": \"e2b\"}`. 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