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title: "E2B for Research"
description: "E2B program for eligible academic and nonprofit research teams: one-time $20,000 in credits and Pro tier membership."
url: "https://e2b.dev/research"
---

# E2B for Research

> A program for research teams at universities, public research institutes, and nonprofit research organizations that build, evaluate, or study AI agents and models on E2B. Approved teams receive one-time $20,000 in E2B credits and membership in the Pro tier.

## Program benefits

Approved teams receive:

- One-time $20,000 in E2B usage credits.
- Membership in the E2B Pro tier.
- An isolated Linux machine per experiment or agent session, with a shell, filesystem, network access, and an optional desktop.
- Custom sandbox CPU and RAM.
- Up to 100 concurrently running sandboxes, expandable to 1,100 with a paid add-on.
- Sandbox sessions up to 24 hours, with free pause and resume.
- Any model and any agent framework. The runtime is Apache-2.0.

## Eligibility

Applicants must meet both criteria:

- The team is affiliated with a university, public research institute, or nonprofit research organization.
- The team is a first-time E2B user.

Capacity is limited, so meeting the criteria does not guarantee acceptance. Open-source publication is welcome but not required. A rejected team may reapply three months after the decision.

## Typical research

Agent evaluations, reinforcement learning rollouts, code-generation benchmarks, data analysis, computer-use agents, and general-purpose agents. Each run gets its own isolated machine, and sandboxes run in parallel, so experiments stay reproducible and independent.

## Apply

- [Submit the research application](https://e2b.dev/research/apply).
- [Read the Hugging Face Open R1 case study](https://e2b.dev/customers/how-hugging-face-is-using-e2b-to-replicate-deepseek-r1.md).
- [Read the Arena web-development evals case study](https://e2b.dev/customers/how-lmarena-collaborated-with-e2b-to-build-llm-web-development-evals.md).
- [Contact E2B](https://e2b.dev/contact.md).