Daytona vs xShellz Agent Shell

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Daytona

Stateful sandboxes that boot from OCI-compliant images.

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

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xShellz Agent Shell

Always-on Linux boxes for AI agents, isolated with gVisor.

Isolation: gVisor
Free tier: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Max session: No limit

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What is different

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Daytona

xShellz Agent Shell

RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier: Daytona: $200 free compute; xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing: Daytona: Per second; xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isolation: Daytona: Container; xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code; xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

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Daytonadaytona.io/pricing

xShellz Agent Shellxshellz.com/pricingxshellz.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Daytona: $0.0504; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: Daytona: $0.0162; xShellz Agent Shell: Included
Storage: Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: Free
Free tier: Daytona: $200 free compute; xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
Paid plan from: Daytona: Pay as you go; xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
Billing: Daytona: Per second; xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Daytona: No limit; xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
Idle stop: Daytona: After 15 minutes; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Daytona: Not listed; xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation: Daytona: Container; xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
GPU: Daytona:; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Snapshots: Daytona:; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Pause and resume: Daytona:; xShellz Agent Shell:

Developer

SDKs: Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java; xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Integrations: Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code; xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Daytona: Not listed; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
BYOC: Daytona: Enterprise plan; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Daytona

xShellz Agent Shell

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Daytona: $0.083; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Daytona: $0.166; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Daytona: $0.331; xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed

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Which one fits

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Daytona fits when

You need GPUs.
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 snapshots.

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