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David Xia's avatar

> lovable’s already chosen modal over e2b for their sandboxes, which modal offers at a 500% lower mark up than e2b.

I'm curious what pricing info you're using? e2b's advertised pricing for 2 vCPUs is $0.000028/s [1] which is about 30% cheaper than Modal's $0.00003942/s [2].

[1]: https://e2b.dev/pricing

[2]: https://modal.com/use-cases/sandboxes

Ethan Ding's avatar

Claude analysis i did a while ago, [wow shit I think Claude fucked it up]

Modal vs E2b Direct Comparison

CPU Sandbox Pricing

E2b: $0.243/hour (2 vCPU sandbox)

Modal: $0.192/hour (1 physical core = 2 vCPU)

AWS baseline: $0.021/hour (t3.small, 2 vCPU)

Markups Over AWS

E2b: 11.6x AWS costs (1060% markup)

Modal: 9.2x AWS costs (823% markup)

True Margins (accounting for overhead)

E2b's actual margin:

Their cost: ~$0.028/hour (AWS + security/ops overhead)

Their price: $0.243/hour

Profit margin: 768%

Modal's actual margin:

Their cost: ~$0.025/hour (AWS + minimal overhead)

Their price: $0.192/hour

Profit margin: 668%

Key Differences

AspectE2bModalPrice/hour (2 vCPU)$0.243$0.192Markup vs AWS11.6x9.2xTrue profit margin768%668%FocusSecurity/isolationPerformance/scalePremium27% more expensiveBaseline