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Daytona

Sub-second container sandboxes for agent workloads, from a team that built a dev-env manager.

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Overall in sandbox providers
2of 19 · score 80.2
Data coverage
100%
26 of 26 fields sourced

Best for

  • •Boot time is your headline metric and the code is your own
  • •You want an MCP server maintained by the vendor
  • •You can tolerate a fast-moving, now closed-source product surface

Strong on

  • +Snapshot & fork Yes 1/19
  • +MCP server Yes 1/18
  • +Shipped 2025 1/16
  • +GPU Yes 1/15
  • +GitHub stars 71,000 1/7
  • +SDKs python, typescript, cli 2/19

Weak on

  • −Isolation container 17/19
    Better: E2B: microvm
  • −Funding seed 9/15
    Better: Fly.io Machines: series-c-plus

vs Fly.io Machines

  • •Ahead on Snapshot & fork: Yes vs Partial
  • •Ahead on Streaming output: Yes vs Partial
  • •Behind on Isolation: container vs microvm
  • •Behind on Sydney region: No vs Yes

How Daytona scores among 19 sandbox providers26 of 26 fields known

Runtime13

Cold start
350ms
4/16
Leader: Riza · 120ms
Cold start (claimed)2nd
90ms
2/12
Leader: Blaxel · 25ms
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Max runtime1st
24h
1/18
Persistent FS1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Snapshot & fork1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Custom images1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
GPU1st
Yes
1/15
daytona.io · 2026-11-07
Runtimes2nd
python, javascript-typescript, bash, any-oci-image
2/18
Leader: boat · python, javascript-typescript, bash, go, rust, java, ruby, php, any-oci-image
Preview URLs1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Browser inside3rd
Partial
3/18
Leader: E2B · Yes
File up/download1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Sydney region
No
8/18
Leader: Fly.io Machines · Yes
Concurrent limit
100 sandboxes
5/15
Leader: Vercel Sandbox · 2,000 sandboxes

Isolation & network3

Isolation
container
17/19
Leader: E2B · microvm
northflank.com · 2026-07-23
Root in guest1st
Yes
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Egress control1st
allowlist
1/19
daytona.io · 2026-07-23

Agent integration3

MCP server1st
Yes
1/18
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
SDKs2nd
python, typescript, cli
2/19
Leader: Runloop · python, typescript, rest-api, cli
Streaming output1st
Yes
1/17
daytona.io · 2026-01-15

Pricing3

Price / hour
$0.17/hr
8/17
Leader: boat · $0.018/hr
northflank.com · 2026-07-23
Meter2nd
per-second
2/19
Leader: Cloudflare Sandbox · per-10ms
daytona.io · 2026-01-15
Idle cost
storage-only
9/19
Leader: Fly.io Machines · free-when-stopped

Traction2

GitHub stars1st
71,000
1/7
github.com · 2026-11-07
Funding
seed
9/15
Leader: Fly.io Machines · series-c-plus

Positioning1

Positioning
Secure, elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code.

Timeline1

Shipped1st
2025
1/16

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