Daytona vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 free compute
Max session
No limit

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Daytona
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
Daytona:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

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 the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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