Celesto Cloud vs Daytona

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Celesto Cloud

Cloud computers for AI agents, each in a microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session: Not listed

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Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

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

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What is different

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

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Celesto Cloud

Daytona

vCPU, per hour: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Celesto Cloud: Included; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: Celesto Cloud: Free; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier: Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days; Daytona: $200 credit
Billing: Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time; Daytona: Per second
Largest sandbox: Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation: Celesto Cloud: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
SDKs: Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Celesto Cloudcelesto.ai/pricing

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour: Celesto Cloud: Included; Daytona: $0.0162
Storage: Celesto Cloud: Free; Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier: Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days; Daytona: $200 credit
Paid plan from: Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go; Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing: Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time; Daytona: Per second

Limits

Max session: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Daytona: No limit
Idle stop: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Daytona: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB; Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Celesto Cloud: Up to 10; Daytona: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Celesto Cloud: MicroVM; Daytona: Container
GPU: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Daytona:
Snapshots: Celesto Cloud:; Daytona:
Pause and resume: Celesto Cloud:; Daytona:

Developer

SDKs: Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP

Trust

License: Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0; Daytona: Not listed
BYOC: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Daytona: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Celesto Cloud

Daytona

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Daytona: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.030; Daytona: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.060; Daytona: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
You use LangChain, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You want the larger free credit: $200 against $5.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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