Daytona vs Prized Sandboxes

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Daytona

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

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Daytona
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Max session
Daytona: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
Prized Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
Daytona:
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 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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