Daytona vs InstaVM
Daytona and InstaVM 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. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
InstaVM
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- InstaVM: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- InstaVM: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 want the larger free credit: $200 against $50.
InstaVM fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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