boxes.dev vs Daytona

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boxes.dev

Cloud computers for Claude Code and Codex.

Isolation: Not listed
Free tier: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session: Not listed

Visit site boxes.dev 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

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

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vCPU, per hour: boxes.dev: $0.1875; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: boxes.dev: Included; Daytona: $0.0162
Free tier: boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included; Daytona: $200 credit
Paid plan from: boxes.dev: $19 / month; Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing: boxes.dev: Bundled machine time; Daytona: Per second
Integrations: boxes.dev: Claude Code; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boxes.dev: $0.1875; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: boxes.dev: Included; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier: boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included; Daytona: $200 credit
Paid plan from: boxes.dev: $19 / month; Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing: boxes.dev: Bundled machine time; Daytona: Per second

Limits

Max session: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: No limit
Idle stop: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boxes.dev: Up to 10; Daytona: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: Container
GPU: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona:
Snapshots: boxes.dev:; Daytona:
Pause and resume: boxes.dev:; Daytona:

Developer

SDKs: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: boxes.dev: Claude Code; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: Not listed
BYOC: boxes.dev: Not listed; Daytona: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boxes.dev

Daytona

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.188; Daytona: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.375; Daytona: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boxes.dev: $0.750; Daytona: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
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 $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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