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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": 207, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "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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"target": "https://api.e2b.app", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:13.439912641Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 656, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 210, "p95ms24h": 697, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2093, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.e2b.dev", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:10:52.281463141Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "e2b-dev/E2B", "version": "e2b@2.53.1", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:39.131477417Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@e2b/code-interpreter", "version": "2.8.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:37.247922313Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "e2b", "version": "2.53.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:33.610736844Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "e2b", "version": "2.53.1", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:37.117480371Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "e2b-code-interpreter", "version": "2.10.3", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:37.466232935Z" } ], "githubStars": 14239, "npmWeekly": 2204931, "pypiWeekly": 1487983, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://e2b.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:32.112609531Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.e2b.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:20.232556187Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "e2b.dev", "registered": "2023-04-03", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/e2b.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:00.866894573Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.e2b.dev/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:41.745625157Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:08:08.075509885Z", "fingerprint": "79bed56f3a91" }, { "url": "https://e2b.dev/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:01.143944984Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:56:43.572973248Z", "fingerprint": "d0233d7de8d9" }, { "url": "https://e2b.dev/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:03.334593644Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:56:45.772329306Z", "fingerprint": "44032fae2f04" }, { "url": "https://e2b.dev/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:05.308080955Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-05T15:56:47.73261481Z", "fingerprint": "214a36f7c719" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:13.439912641Z" } }, "answer": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Together Code Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "together-code-sandbox", "name": "Together Code Sandbox", "vendor": "Together AI", "vendorUrl": "https://www.together.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Together AI's hosted virtual machine sandboxes for running commands and code, built from Docker-image snapshots and driven from the `together-sandbox` Python SDK, TypeScript SDK or CLI. Access is by allowlist, on request to Together.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/together-code-sandbox.json", "repo": "https://github.com/togethercomputer/together-sandbox", "license": "Proprietary service under Together's terms of service. The SDKs, CLI and OpenAPI documents on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "together-sandbox" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "together-sandbox" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Access is by allowlist. The docs say the `together-sandbox` SDK and CLI must be enabled for an organisation and to contact Together to request it. Once enabled, a project-scoped Together API key is sent as a Bearer token, read from `TOGETHER_API_KEY`. Keys are revocable, can carry an expiry date and have no finer scopes. Each running sandbox also has its own agent token for the in-VM API, which the SDKs handle.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The pricing page lists Code Sandbox compute at $0.0446 per vCPU-hour and $0.0149 per GiB of RAM per hour, and does not say whether that rate covers the new SDK as well as the legacy one. No free tier or sandbox lets an agent start without a contract. Together has no free trial, platform access needs a $15 first credit purchase, and the organisation must then be enabled on request (https://www.together.ai/pricing, https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits).", "priceSummary": "$0.0446 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs page, the repository or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 1298, "pypiWeekly": 3387, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.together.ai/docs/together-code-sandbox", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.together.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://togethercomputer.github.io/together-sandbox/api-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "allowlist", "sales-led", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "cli", "security-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 628, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 20, "reliability": 25, "schema": 86, "security": 47, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Two public OpenAPI documents, MIT clients for Python and TypeScript, cursor pagination and built-in retries make the surface easy for an agent to drive. Access is the limit. Together enables the SDK per organisation on request, publishes no rate limits or SLA, and neither status page names the sandbox service.", "bestFor": "Teams already buying from Together, and former CodeSandbox SDK users, who want Docker-defined sandboxes with disk and memory snapshots from Python or TypeScript.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI documents for the management API (17 operations) and the in-VM API (25), in the repository and on GitHub Pages", "Terminating with `memory: true` saves disk and memory, and a new sandbox created from that snapshot resumes its running processes", "List calls are cursor-paginated (1 to 100 a page) with filters for status, source snapshot and tags", "Both SDKs retry 408, 429 and 5xx three times with exponential backoff, and the docs warn that `snapshots.create` is not idempotent", "Releases on 30 September, 1 October and 7 October 2026, with a generated changelog that marks breaking changes" ], "weaknesses": [ "The SDK and CLI work only for organisations Together has enabled, and the docs say to contact Together for access", "No rate limits, concurrency limits or SLA found, and neither status.together.ai nor status.codesandbox.io names the service", "Every sandbox port is public unless an experimental inbound policy is set, and no outbound controls exist yet", "Three major versions between 2 June and 28 July 2026, and memory snapshots were removed in 4.0.0 and restored in 4.0.4", "The management API answers at `api.bartender.codesandbox.io`, off Together's domain, and the privacy policy's data table has no sandbox row" ], "agentNotes": [ "Confirm the organisation is on Together's allowlist before installing. A valid `TOGETHER_API_KEY` alone is not enough", "Build a snapshot first with `snapshots.create`. No default image exists, and every sandbox needs `snapshot_id` or `snapshot_alias`", "Set `ttl` at creation or call `terminate()`. Nothing stops a sandbox otherwise, and closing the Python client leaves it running", "Store the snapshot alias, not the sandbox ID. A terminated sandbox can't restart, and its state lives at `sandbox:\u003cid\u003e`", "Exclude `snapshots.create` from retries with `should_retry`, and set `experimental.network_policy` before serving anything private on a port" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 20, "reliability": 25, "schema": 86, "security": 47, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 77 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install together-sandbox # or npm install together-sandbox" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/together-code-sandbox" }, "sameCompany": [ "together-fine-tuning" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "vCPU", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.0446, "note": "RAM extra at $0.0149 per GiB-hour. Listed under Code Sandbox on the pricing page, which doesn't name the SDK" }, { "item": "Default sandbox (1 vCPU, 2 GiB)", "unit": "session-hour", "usd": 0.0744, "note": "Our sum of the vCPU and RAM rates" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Together Computer, Inc.", "domain": "together.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.together.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.together.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.together.ai", "changelog": "https://github.com/togethercomputer/together-sandbox/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service (updated 19 May 2026) name Together Computer, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 251 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, and cover the website and the Services. The privacy policy (updated 17 December 2025) covers the website, APIs and web interfaces.", "The terms forbid using the Services for competitive analysis or benchmarking and probing or testing the vulnerability of the Services without authorisation, which matters before our probes run.", "The management API answers at api.bartender.codesandbox.io and sandbox URLs sit under csb.app. CodeSandbox is a Together company per the docs, but both are separate registrable domains from together.ai.", "status.together.ai has no sandbox component. status.codesandbox.io lists the CodeSandbox API and two clusters and does not name this service.", "security.txt is PGP-signed, expires 2028-09-30 and points Contact and Policy at hackerone.com/together_ai. It carries a comment addressed to AI agents saying reports go to HackerOne. Recorded as a fact, and we did not act on it.", "RDAP for together.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-16.", "trust.together.ai is script-drawn and showed our reader only its title. No DPA or sub-processor page was found." ], "score": 77 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox.json", "live": { "slug": "together-code-sandbox", "probe": { "target": "https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:30.155277956Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 143, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 146, "p95ms24h": 181, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.together.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:36.139351511Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T10:14:30.155277956Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "E2B", "b": "Together AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.e2b.app", "b": "https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Together's terms of service. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runloop-vs-together-code-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprites-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "title": "Sprites vs Together Code Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sprites-vs-together-code-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/together-code-sandbox-vs-vercel-sandbox.json", "title": "Together Code Sandbox vs Vercel Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/together-code-sandbox-vs-vercel-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-e2b.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs E2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-e2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs Together Code Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-together-code-sandbox" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 35, "e2b": 60, "edge": "e2b", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "together-code-sandbox": 25, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "e2b": 92, "edge": "e2b", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "together-code-sandbox": 86, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "e2b": 65, "edge": "together-code-sandbox", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "together-code-sandbox": 70, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "e2b": 62, "edge": "e2b", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "together-code-sandbox": 47, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "e2b": 50, "edge": "e2b", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "together-code-sandbox": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "e2b": 88, "edge": "e2b", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "together-code-sandbox": 83, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "e2b": 68, "edge": "e2b", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "together-code-sandbox": 60, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Together Code Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code.", "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.", "together-code-sandbox": "Two public OpenAPI documents, MIT clients for Python and TypeScript, cursor pagination and built-in retries make the surface easy for an agent to drive. Access is the limit. Together enables the SDK per organisation on request, publishes no rate limits or SLA, and neither status page names the sandbox service." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox.min.md" }, "markdown": "E2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Together Code Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code.\n\n- E2B: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #207 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/e2b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/e2b.json\n- Together Code Sandbox: grade D, 53.6/100, rank #628 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-code-sandbox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/together-code-sandbox.json\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 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 86\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 47\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 83\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Two major incidents over an hour in September 2026, on sandbox creation and on creating from snapshots\n\n### Together Code Sandbox (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already buying from Together, and former CodeSandbox SDK users, who want Docker-defined sandboxes with disk and memory snapshots from Python or TypeScript.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65\n\nWatch for: The SDK and CLI work only for organisations Together has enabled, and the docs say to contact Together for access\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | E2B | Together Code Sandbox | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 25 | E2B +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 86 | E2B +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 70 | Together Code Sandbox +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 47 | E2B +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 20 | E2B +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 83 | E2B +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 60 | E2B +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **53.6 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | E2B | Together Code Sandbox |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | E2B | Together AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.e2b.app` | `https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Together's terms of service. The SDKs, CLI and OpenAPI documents on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-12-04 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-04-08 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 13k stars, 2.2M npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 1.3k npm/wk, 3.4k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\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**Together Code Sandbox.** Two public OpenAPI documents, MIT clients for Python and TypeScript, cursor pagination and built-in retries make the surface easy for an agent to drive. Access is the limit. Together enables the SDK per organisation on request, publishes no rate limits or SLA, and neither status page names the sandbox service.\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### Together Code Sandbox\n\n1. Confirm the organisation is on Together's allowlist before installing. A valid `TOGETHER_API_KEY` alone is not enough\n2. Build a snapshot first with `snapshots.create`. No default image exists, and every sandbox needs `snapshot_id` or `snapshot_alias`\n3. Set `ttl` at creation or call `terminate()`. Nothing stops a sandbox otherwise, and closing the Python client leaves it running\n4. Store the snapshot alias, not the sandbox ID. A terminated sandbox can't restart, and its state lives at `sandbox:\u003cid\u003e`\n5. Exclude `snapshots.create` from retries with `should_retry`, and set `experimental.network_policy` before serving anything private on a port\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, E2B or Together Code Sandbox?\n\nE2B scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Together Code Sandbox's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Together Code Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do E2B and Together Code Sandbox need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call E2B and Together Code Sandbox without installing anything?\n\nYes. E2B has a hosted endpoint at https://api.e2b.app and Together Code Sandbox at https://api.bartender.codesandbox.io.\n\n### Are E2B and Together Code Sandbox open source?\n\nE2B is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Together Code Sandbox.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-together-code-sandbox.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"e2b\", \"b\": \"together-code-sandbox\"}`. 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