Daytona vs HopX

Daytona and HopX charge the same list price: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

HopX

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Daytona
HopX
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Isolation
Daytona: Container
HopX: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
HopX: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
HopX: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
HopX: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
HopX: $0.0162
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
HopX: $200 credit
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
HopX: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
HopX: Per second

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
HopX: No limit
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
HopX: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
HopX: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
HopX: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
HopX: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
HopX: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
HopX: Not listed
Pause and resume
Daytona:
HopX:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
HopX: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
HopX: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
HopX
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
HopX: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
HopX: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
HopX: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

HopX fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need SOC 2.

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