Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Daytona

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: $200 credit
Max session: No limit

Visit site Daytona profile

What is different

3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Daytona

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Daytona:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $200 credit
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Daytona: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: No limit
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Daytona:
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Daytona:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Daytona:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Daytona

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Daytona: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

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