Daytona vs Sandbox0

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
Max session
No limit

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Daytona
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Sandbox0: Free
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Daytona:
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Sandbox0: $0.120

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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