Agentuity vs E2B vs Niteshift
Somewhere for an agent to actually run the code it writes, without that being your laptop or your production cluster. These sit at different layers and are often combined rather than chosen between.
All 3 checked against the vendor's own pricing page · checked Sep 2026
Which should you pick?
E2B is the primitive: an open source sandbox you embed in your own agent, free on Hobby and $150 on Pro. Niteshift is a fuller environment, provisioning a database, a dev server and a live browser so the agent can verify its own work instead of guessing, with a free tier and $50 individual plan. Agentuity is a deployment platform rather than a sandbox, bundling APIs, frontends and storage around agents you are putting into production, and is currently free plus usage costs. If you are building an agent, start with E2B. If you want the agent to check whether what it built actually runs, Niteshift is doing the more specific thing. Agentuity answers a later question, which is where the finished agent lives.
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Freemium |
| Pricing details | Starts with $5 in free credits, then usage-based billing measured in ACUs with a public calculator. No seat fee published. | Hobby tier is free with a one-time $100 in usage credits. Pro is $150/month. Compute bills per second on top, from $0.000014/s depending on sandbox size. | Free tier with 1 seat and $10 of credits per month - Individual $50/month with 1 seat and $50 of credits - Team $250/month with unlimited seats and $250 of credits - usage beyond credits is pay-as-you-go, metered at 0.1 credits per minute of active agent time, and you can bring your own Claude or OpenAI API keys |
| Price range | Usage based, no flat monthly planChecked 2026-09-15 | $0 - $150/moChecked 2026-09-21 | $0 - $250/moChecked 2026-09-21 |
| Free option | Free trial only | Free tier | Free tier |
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| What it does | A platform for putting agents into production, bundling APIs, frontends, storage and sandboxes so you are not assembling the surrounding plumbing yourself. | Open source sandboxes that give an AI agent somewhere safe to actually run the code it writes, isolated from your infrastructure and billed by the second. | Gives coding agents a fully provisioned cloud environment with databases, a dev server and a live browser, so they can verify their own work before review. |
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| Tags | devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdocker | devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdocker | devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdockertesting |
What it costs
- Pricing
- Paid
- Pricing details
- Starts with $5 in free credits, then usage-based billing measured in ACUs with a public calculator. No seat fee published.
- Price range
- Usage based, no flat monthly planChecked 2026-09-15
- Free option
- Free trial only
- Plans
- Free + Usage CostsNot listed
What it is
- What it does
- A platform for putting agents into production, bundling APIs, frontends, storage and sandboxes so you are not assembling the surrounding plumbing yourself.
The details
- Tags
- devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdocker
What it costs
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Pricing details
- Hobby tier is free with a one-time $100 in usage credits. Pro is $150/month. Compute bills per second on top, from $0.000014/s depending on sandbox size.
- Price range
- $0 - $150/moChecked 2026-09-21
- Free option
- Free tier
- Plans
- Hobby$0/mo
- Pro$150/mo
- EnterpriseContact sales
What it is
- What it does
- Open source sandboxes that give an AI agent somewhere safe to actually run the code it writes, isolated from your infrastructure and billed by the second.
The details
- Tags
- devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdocker
What it costs
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Pricing details
- Free tier with 1 seat and $10 of credits per month - Individual $50/month with 1 seat and $50 of credits - Team $250/month with unlimited seats and $250 of credits - usage beyond credits is pay-as-you-go, metered at 0.1 credits per minute of active agent time, and you can bring your own Claude or OpenAI API keys
- Price range
- $0 - $250/moChecked 2026-09-21
- Free option
- Free tier
- Plans
- Free$0/mo
- Individual$50/mo
- Team$250/mo
What it is
- What it does
- Gives coding agents a fully provisioned cloud environment with databases, a dev server and a live browser, so they can verify their own work before review.
The details
- Tags
- devopsinfrastructuredeploymentdockertesting
Read the full reviews
What each one is actually like to use, tested by hand rather than summarised from the vendor’s own page.
