Daytona vs Phonebox

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

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

Visit site Daytona profile

Phonebox

Cloud Android phones that AI agents control through their screens.

Isolation: Not listed
Free tier: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session: 3 hours

Visit site Phonebox profile

What is different

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

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Daytona

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Free tier: Daytona: $200 free compute; Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Billing: Daytona: Per second; Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Max session: Daytona: No limit; Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; Phonebox: After 5 minutes
SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code; Phonebox: MCP

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

Phoneboxphonebox.dev/pricingphonebox.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; Phonebox: Not listed
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier: Daytona: $200 free compute; Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing: Daytona: Per second; Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Daytona: No limit; Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Daytona: Not listed; Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation: Daytona: Container; Phonebox: Not listed
GPU: Daytona:; Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots: Daytona:; Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume: Daytona:; Phonebox:

Developer

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

Trust

License: Daytona: Not listed; Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC: Daytona: Enterprise plan; Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

Phonebox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
A session must run longer than 3 hours.
You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
You need snapshots.

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