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SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "perplexity-space", "name": "SPACE", "vendor": "Perplexity", "vendorUrl": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "SPACE is Perplexity's open-source, self-hosted platform for running agent code in Firecracker microVMs. An operator deploys it on Linux with KVM, and applications drive sandboxes through its HTTP and SSE API or an E2B-compatible API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/perplexity-space.json", "repo": "https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Nothing to sign up for with Perplexity. On a deployment, the native API takes `Authorization: Bearer` with a token from a password login at `/auth/v1/sessions` or a service token, and users hold admin or member roles. Command streams on the data plane take a separate session-scoped token, valid for 5 minutes, that the API returns with each command. The E2B Compatibility Wrapper takes an E2B-style key in `X-API-Key`, which an operator creates with scripts/seed-api-key.sh and an SQL insert. SPACE stores only its SHA-256 hash. No key scopes or revocation call were found in the reviewed documentation.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy from Perplexity and no hosted SPACE service. The cost is the operator's own hosts, which need Linux x86_64 with KVM (bare-metal instances in Perplexity's reference EKS deployment), plus PostgreSQL and S3-compatible object storage, with Valkey in the reference EKS deployment (checked 2026-10-16).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs, the OpenAPI document or the source read on 16 October 2026. Self-hosted open-source software with no paid endpoint.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-16" }, "docsUrl": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html", "openapi": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.persist", "sandbox.fs" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "rust", "linux", "kubernetes", "microvm", "openapi", "e2b-compatible", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 683, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1098, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 26, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 75, "security": 64, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-16" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Once deployed, SPACE's native API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, stable error codes with a retryable flag and 24-hour idempotency keys, and egress and credential controls sit outside the VM. A person must first deploy it on a Linux x86_64 host with KVM and Kubernetes. Version 0.8.0 has no tagged release, changelog or public container images.", "bestFor": "Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 for 14 supported operations, served by each deployment at `/openapi-m1.json` and published on the docs site", "Errors carry a stable `code`, a `retryable` flag and a request ID, and lifecycle calls and command creation take a 24-hour `Idempotency-Key`", "Per-sandbox egress policies with allow and deny lists, operator egress profiles and TLS interception are enforced by a gateway outside the guest", "The network gateway can add secret headers from AWS Secrets Manager for an exact host and path, so the guest never holds the value", "An E2B Compatibility Wrapper lets the E2B Python SDK, tested at e2b 2.21.1, use a SPACE deployment as its backend" ], "weaknesses": [ "A person must deploy it first, on an apt-based Linux x86_64 host with KVM, privileged Docker and Kubernetes (Kind in the guide)", "Version 0.8.0 has no git tag, GitHub release or changelog, and CI pushes container images only to a private registry", "The `network_policy` and idle-lifecycle create fields are marked incubating, outside the supported contract, and typed as open objects", "Credential injection is off by default, needs AWS Secrets Manager, and has no page of its own in the user guide", "The wrapper rejects E2B's `mcp`, `volumeMounts` and `iam` options, team template names and pause without memory, and only Python is tested" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask your operator for the API base URL (before `/v1`, or `/api/v1` on shared hosts), the data-plane URL and a bearer token before planning any call", "Poll the returned operation until it succeeds and the sandbox is `running` before creating a command. A 202 response is not readiness", "Attach to the command's events URL with its session token to start the process, decode base64 output, and treat only `process_exited` as completion", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` on creates, lifecycle calls and commands, and retry only when `retryable` is true, after any `Retry-After`", "Save output as it arrives. 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No fuller legal entity name was found in the repository or the docs.", "The docs site is space.docs.perplexity.ai and the repository is under GitHub's perplexityai organisation. RDAP from Identity Digital gives perplexity.ai a registration date of 8 July 2022.", "No terms or privacy policy applies to the self-hosted software beyond the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no hosted SPACE endpoint, so no status page.", "No changelog or release notes. docs/versioning.md says the v0.8.0 tag should mark the tested commit, and the clone had no tags on 16 October 2026.", "https://www.perplexity.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/.well-known/security.txt both returned Contact security@perplexity.ai, Expires 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z and Policy https://www.perplexity.ai/security on 16 October 2026. The robots.txt of www.perplexity.ai allows that path.", "WebFetch refused the docs site as outside its allowed set, so the guide index, API index, openapi.json, build.json files and security.txt were read with curl. space.docs.perplexity.ai has no robots.txt (404). 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SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, E2B or SPACE?" }, { "answer": "E2B needs an API key. SPACE takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do E2B and SPACE need an API key?" }, { "answer": "E2B has a hosted endpoint at https://api.e2b.app. No hosted endpoint is listed for SPACE.", "question": "Can an agent call E2B and SPACE without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. E2B is open source (Apache-2.0). 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"perplexity-space": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do code sandboxes.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "perplexity-space": "Once deployed, SPACE's native API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, stable error codes with a retryable flag and 24-hour idempotency keys, and egress and credential controls sit outside the VM. A person must first deploy it on a Linux x86_64 host with KVM and Kubernetes. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/perplexity-space.json\n- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md\n- All 120 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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 32\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 75\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 26\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### SPACE (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nWatch for: A person must deploy it first, on an apt-based Linux x86_64 host with KVM, privileged Docker and Kubernetes (Kind in the guide)\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | E2B | SPACE | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 32 | E2B +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 75 | E2B +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 66 | SPACE +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 64 | SPACE +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | SPACE +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 26 | E2B +62 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 68 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **56.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | E2B | SPACE |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | E2B | Perplexity |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.e2b.app` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-12-04 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-04-08 | no document linked |\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 | 13k stars, 2.2M npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**SPACE.** Once deployed, SPACE's native API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, stable error codes with a retryable flag and 24-hour idempotency keys, and egress and credential controls sit outside the VM. A person must first deploy it on a Linux x86_64 host with KVM and Kubernetes. Version 0.8.0 has no tagged release, changelog or public container images.\n\n## Before you call either\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### SPACE\n\n1. Ask your operator for the API base URL (before `/v1`, or `/api/v1` on shared hosts), the data-plane URL and a bearer token before planning any call\n2. Poll the returned operation until it succeeds and the sandbox is `running` before creating a command. A 202 response is not readiness\n3. Attach to the command's events URL with its session token to start the process, decode base64 output, and treat only `process_exited` as completion\n4. Send an `Idempotency-Key` on creates, lifecycle calls and commands, and retry only when `retryable` is true, after any `Retry-After`\n5. Save output as it arrives. Reconnecting with `Last-Event-ID` returns `resync_required`, not the missed output\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, E2B or SPACE?\n\nE2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do E2B and SPACE need an API key?\n\nE2B needs an API key. SPACE takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call E2B and SPACE without installing anything?\n\nE2B has a hosted endpoint at https://api.e2b.app. No hosted endpoint is listed for SPACE.\n\n### Are E2B and SPACE open source?\n\nYes. E2B is open source (Apache-2.0). SPACE is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-perplexity-space.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-perplexity-space.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"e2b\", \"b\": \"perplexity-space\"}`. 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