Daytona vs exe.dev

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. exe.dev runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

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

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exe.dev

Disposable VMs for AI agents, billed by the second.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session: Not listed

Visit site exe.dev profile

What is different

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Daytona

exe.dev

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; exe.dev: Included
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing: Daytona: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation: Daytona: Container; exe.dev: Full VM
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code; exe.dev: Claude Code

Full comparison

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; exe.dev: Included
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing: Daytona: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Daytona: No limit; exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Daytona: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Daytona: Container; exe.dev: Full VM
GPU: Daytona:; exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots: Daytona:; exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume: Daytona:; exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

exe.dev

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; exe.dev: $0.210

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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 need snapshots.

exe.dev fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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