BoxCompute vs Daytona
BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
BoxCompute
Daytona
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Daytona: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Daytona: Container
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Daytonadaytona
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxCompute: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Storage
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Billing
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Daytona: No limit
- Idle stop
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- Daytona: Container
- GPU
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona:
- Snapshots
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona:
- Pause and resume
- BoxCompute:
- Daytona:
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Daytona: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxCompute
Daytona
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- Daytona: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- Daytona: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxCompute: $0.400
- Daytona: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
Daytona fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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