Daytona vs Sailboxes
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.
Updated
Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
Sailboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Daytonadaytona
Sailboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Sailboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Sailboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Sailboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Sailboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Sailboxes: $0.124
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 want the larger free credit: $200 against $5.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Sailboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2.
More comparisons
Agent Sandbox vs Daytona- Agent Sandbox vs Sailboxes
Agent37 Cloud vs Daytona- Agent37 Cloud vs Sailboxes
AgentBay vs Daytona- AgentBay vs Sailboxes
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Daytona
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Sailboxes