Daytona vs Runtime
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 free compute
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Runtime: No
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 free compute
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Daytona fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR.
Runtime fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- 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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