Daytona
Daytona is a cloud platform that provisions isolated Linux, Windows, or GPU-backed sandbox environments for running AI-generated and untrusted code. Sandboxes are stateful and expose filesystem, process, and execution operations through official SDKs. The platform targets AI agent infrastructure use cases, supporting Docker-in-Docker execution and offering VM-based isolation with pause/resume capabilities.
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go per second for reserved vCPU, RAM, and disk |
|---|---|
| Pricing The headline compute price as the provider states it. Sorting ranks prices stated per vCPU over time, converted to hourly. Other pricing models sort after, unranked. | $0.0504 per vCPU-hour |
| Free while idle Whether a stopped, paused, or sleeping sandbox costs nothing. | ✓ |
| Elastic Resources flex with what the sandbox actually uses, and the bill follows: yes when the provider bills on active or observed use, no when capacity is reserved or allocated and billed while it runs. | ✕ |
| Memory snapshots Whether RAM state survives a pause and resume, not just disk. | ✓ |
| Wake on request Whether a stopped sandbox wakes automatically on inbound traffic. | – |
| Start / resume Typical time from create or resume to running. Sorting ranks stated times, converted to seconds; claims with no figure sort after, unranked. | ~27 ms spin-up; under 90 ms end-to-end |
| Max runtime The longest a sandbox may run. | No fixed limit |
| Isolation The isolation technology between sandboxes. | Linux namespaces and isolated containers for container sandboxes; full virtual machines with their own kernel for Linux and Windows VM sandboxes; isolated containers with exclusive GPU allocation for GPU sandboxes |
| GPUs Whether GPU instances are available for sandboxes. | ✓ |
| Docker Whether Docker containers can run inside the sandbox. | ✓ |
| SDKs | Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java |
✓ yes · ✕ no · – no cited public fact.
Default sandbox isolation is shared-kernel Docker/OCI containers; VM-based isolation (Linux/Windows) must be opted into.
Sources
- https://www.daytona.io/definitions/d/docker-in-docker
- https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/issues/4461
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/language-server-protocol/
- https://www.daytona.io/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/snapshots/
- https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/vms-pause-and-fork
- https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/fastest-growing-infra-company-in-history
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/limits/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/preview/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/llms-full.txt
- https://www.daytona.io/pricing
- https://www.zenml.io/blog/e2b-vs-daytona
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/architecture/
- https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/isolation/
Last verified 2026-08-21. Corrections land through the update log.