Daytona vs Prime Sandboxes

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Daytona
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Daytona:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
Prime Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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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 pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 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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