Daytona vs Namespace Devboxes

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Daytona
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
GPU
Daytona:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Namespace Devboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

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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 need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2.

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