CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Daytona

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Daytona
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Daytona: $0.0162
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Daytona: No limit
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Daytona: Container
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Daytona: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Daytona: $0.0162
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona: $200 credit
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Daytona: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Daytona: No limit
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Daytona: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Daytona: Container
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Daytona:
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Daytona:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Daytona: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Daytona: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Daytona
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Daytona: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Daytona: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Daytona: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

Daytona fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 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 $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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