Daytona vs tama

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: $200 credit
Max session: No limit

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tama

Linux VMs with GPUs, billed by the second.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

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What is different

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

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Daytona

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vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; tama: $0.0055
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation: Daytona: Container; tama: Full VM
SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; tama: Python, TypeScript

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; tama: $0.0055
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier: Daytona: $200 credit; tama: Not listed
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; tama: Not listed
Billing: Daytona: Per second; tama: Per second

Limits

Max session: Daytona: No limit; tama: Not listed
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Daytona: Not listed; tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Daytona: Container; tama: Full VM
GPU: Daytona:; tama:
Snapshots: Daytona:; tama:
Pause and resume: Daytona:; tama:

Developer

SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP; tama: Not listed

Trust

License: Daytona: Not listed; tama: Not listed
BYOC: Daytona: Enterprise plan; tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

tama

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; tama: $0.091

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

tama fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You want the lower list price: $0.045 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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