If you're shopping for an E2B alternative, you've probably already decided that running agent-generated code on your own boxes is a bad idea. Good. The next question is the one that sends procurement into a three-week loop: where does that code actually run, and who can be compelled to hand over what it touched?
E2B is a genuinely good product - fast microVM isolation and mature SDKs. We use the same primitives. But it's a US company, and for a lot of EU teams that single fact decides it. This is orkestr vs E2B: where we line up, where we differ, and the one piece of the stack that's never going to be in the EU no matter who you pick.
The short verdict
Pick E2B if you're US-hosted, want US-region latency, and the bigger existing ecosystem. Pick orkestr if you're an EU company that wants the runtime, the snapshots, and the DPA all sitting inside one EU legal entity - on every plan, not just enterprise.
That's it. The rest is detail.
