Daytona vs Freestyle VMs

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Freestyle VMs 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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Freestyle VMs

Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free plan, $0 forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Freestyle VMs profile

What is different

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

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Daytona

Freestyle VMs

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation: Daytona: Container; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Freestyle VMsfreestyle.sh/pricingfreestyle.sh

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: Daytona: Per second; Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: Daytona: No limit; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Daytona: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation: Daytona: Container; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU: Daytona:; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots: Daytona:; Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume: Daytona:; Freestyle VMs:

Developer

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

Trust

License: Daytona: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC: Daytona: Enterprise plan; Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

Freestyle VMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; Freestyle VMs: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; Freestyle VMs: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; Freestyle VMs: $0.264

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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 Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Freestyle VMs fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You want the lower list price: $0.132 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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