Daytona vs Shardflux

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Daytona

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

Shardflux

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Daytona
Shardflux
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Shardflux: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Shardflux: $0.015
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Shardflux: $9 / month
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Shardflux: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Shardflux: Not listed
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Shardflux: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Shardflux: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
Shardflux:
Snapshots
Daytona:
Shardflux:
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Shardflux:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Shardflux: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Shardflux: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Shardflux
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Shardflux: $0.070
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Shardflux: $0.140
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Shardflux: $0.280

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

Shardflux fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.140 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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