Daytona vs Shellbox
Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Shellbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Daytona
Shellbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Daytona: $0.0504
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- Daytona: $200 free compute
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Daytona: Per second
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Daytona: No limit
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Daytona: Not listed
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- Daytona: Container
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Daytona:
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Daytona:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- Daytona:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Daytona: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Daytona
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Daytona: $0.083
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Daytona: $0.166
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: $0.331
- Shellbox: $0.040
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 need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.020 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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