Daytona
Daytona provisions low-latency, stateful sandboxes that run untrusted AI-generated code in customer-managed cloud compute. You create sandboxes via API, attach persistent volumes and secrets (substituted at egress), and run long-lived agents with per-hour billing for CPU, memory, storage and GPUs on your cloud account.
Daytona documents pay-as-you-go hourly pricing for compute, memory, storage, and GPUs and explicitly notes $200 in free compute credit included.Is Daytona right for you?
Good for
- Teams building coding agents, code interpreters, or long-running AI workflows that need isolated, persistent sandboxes on customer-managed cloud compute.
- Very low sandbox creation latency for high-scale provisioning.
- Designed for stateful, long-running agent workflows with persistent sandboxes and shared volumes.
Keep in mind
- Requires customer-managed compute in your cloud rather than shared hosted compute.
- Secrets are substituted at egress rather than stored inside sandboxes, which affects secret management design.
- Founders expecting a fully managed shared compute offering without supplying cloud resources should confirm fit, since Daytona requires customer-managed compute in your cloud.
Pricing and plan limits
The linked official pages show per-hour unit prices and a $200 free compute credit; the linked official pages do not list named subscription tiers or monthly/annual plans.
More about capabilities and limits
Documented strengths
Very low sandbox creation latency for high-scale provisioning.
Designed for stateful, long-running agent workflows with persistent sandboxes and shared volumes.
Limitations to consider
Requires customer-managed compute in your cloud rather than shared hosted compute.
Secrets are substituted at egress rather than stored inside sandboxes, which affects secret management design.
Choosing a plan
Deploy a small pilot that provisions sandboxes, runs a representative long-running agent, and verifies secret-management and concurrency characteristics against your cloud account and cost expectations.
Based on the linked product documentation.
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Web.
Official sources
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Choose around the work you need to do.
E2B
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