exe.dev

exe.dev — Persistent VMs you SSH into, with root, apt and systemd, on a flat monthly plan. exe.dev sells long-lived Linux VMs driven over SSH, with root, a public hostname and a flat monthly plan rather than a per-second meter. It is on this page because a competitor's comparison table lists it: BYO repos with a setup script, SSH, Docker inside the guest, no session cap and flat pricing, and — per that same chart — no snapshot or fork story and no dedicated IPv4. toolweight has verified none of those rows, and the absences in particular are a rival's characterisation rather than a checked fact.

We track it in 1 comparison — Sandbox providers — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 19 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it gives ground.

• Meter — subscription, 15th of 19. Cloudflare Sandbox records per-10ms.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

A caveat on the data. Only 5 of the 26 fields we track for exe.dev carry a value, so treat this profile as partial — an absent red flag is not evidence that there isn't one. Last verified 2026-07-23. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is ascii, and on the fields we score the two are close to indistinguishable — nothing we record separates them by enough to call. If you are choosing between them, the deciding factor is not in this table. Compare them properly.

Fields we track

5 of 26

Last verified

2026-07-23

Present on this page only because a competitor put it there, and every capability cell reflects that: box's table credits exe.dev with BYO repos and a setup script, SSH, Docker in the guest, 24/7 VMs and flat pricing, and omits it from the rows for snapshots, forking, a dedicated IPv4 and BYO domains. The positive claims are believable precisely because they come from a rival, and they are recorded. The omissions are not: a competitor declining to tick a box is not evidence that the box is empty, so exe.dev's snapshot-and-fork cell is unknown here rather than a zero, and the 24/7 row buys it no runtime ceiling. Nothing on this row is measured, and no price, boot time or isolation detail is established at all — treat it as a placeholder until it can be sourced from exe.dev directly.

Meter

subscription15th of 19

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Root in guest

●Yes1st of 20

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Custom images

◐Partial14th of 20

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

File up/download

◐Partial10th of 19

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

exe.dev is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Long-lived SSH VMs on a predictable monthly bill.
• You want root, apt and systemd rather than a constrained runtime.
• You are prepared to verify the gaps a competitor's chart reports.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Meter. exe.dev records subscription, 15th of 19 in the Sandbox providers roster. Cloudflare Sandbox records per-10ms on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 21 of the 26 fields we track for exe.dev are still blank: Cold start, Cold start (claimed), Isolation, Egress control, Max runtime, Persistent FS, Snapshot & fork and GPU, and 13 more. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.