Daytona vs Lizard Sandboxes
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
Lizard Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Lizard Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Lizard Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 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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