Daytona vs Islo Sandboxes

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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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Islo Sandboxes

Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Starting credit, no card required
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Islo Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Daytona

Islo Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Isolation: Daytona: Container; Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code; Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Islo Sandboxesislo.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Daytona: Per second; Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License: Daytona: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Daytona: Enterprise plan; Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

Islo Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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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, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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