Daytona vs Zipbox

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Daytona

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

Zipbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Daytona
Zipbox
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
Daytona:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Zipbox: No
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Zipbox: $0.00685
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Zipbox: Included
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Zipbox: Free
Free tier
Daytona: $200 free compute
Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Zipbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Zipbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Zipbox: No limit
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Zipbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Zipbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Daytona: Container
Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Daytona:
Zipbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Daytona:
Zipbox: No
Pause and resume
Daytona:
Zipbox: No

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Zipbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Zipbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Zipbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Zipbox: $0.027

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Zipbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 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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