COMPARE / GROTTE / E2B

GROTTE vs E2B.

E2B pioneered the agent-sandbox category and remains the open-source reference. Their cluster sits in the US — GROTTE is the EU-resident alternative with Mistral built in.

GROTTEE2B

Data residencyFR-PAR / Scaleway / EU only
US / AWS us-east
Sandbox runtimeFirecracker microVM
Firecracker microVM
Cold start< 300 ms
~150 ms (claimed)
Max session length (free tier)1 hour / base tier
1 hour / Hobby
Free credit100 sandbox-hours / month
$100 one-time
Pro entry pointHobby EUR 19 / month
$150 / month + usage
BYOM vault (your LLM key)Built-in / AES-256 at rest / 9 providers
Roll your own (env vars)
Mistral / Scaleway agents8 templates pre-built (claude-code, aider, opencode, codex)
BYO image
GDPR DPAEU-native / Article 28 DPA available
Standard Contractual Clauses (US transfer)

Boot time / live

FR-PAR / synthetic probe / last 24 h

P50…

P95…

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EU sovereignty

Their data residency: US (Delaware-incorporated, AWS us-east).

Inference in Paris. Data in Paris. DPA in Paris.

Migration recipe

Swap E2B for GROTTE in one diff.

Before / E2B

# E2B
from e2b_code_interpreter import Sandbox

sbx = Sandbox()
result = sbx.run_code("print(2 + 2)")
print(result.logs.stdout)
sbx.kill()

After / GROTTE

# GROTTE
from grotte import Sandbox

sbx = Sandbox.create("python-ds")
result = sbx.commands.run("python -c 'print(2 + 2)'")
print(result.stdout)
sbx.kill()

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