Daytona vs PandaStack Sandbox
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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