Docker Cloud Sandboxes
https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/
Docker Cloud Sandboxes provide Docker-managed, isolated environments in which AI coding agents and automated workflows run commands and tools. Developers can control them through a CLI or API, or work with an agent through a cloud terminal.
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go, metered per second of runtime at the selected vCPU and memory size |
|---|---|
| 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. | Micro (1 vCPU, 2 GiB): $0.07 per 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. | – |
| Max runtime The longest a sandbox may run. | 24 h per session |
| Isolation The isolation technology between sandboxes. | Docker-built microVM with its own kernel |
| GPUs Whether GPU instances are available for sandboxes. | – |
| Docker Whether Docker containers can run inside the sandbox. | ✓ |
| SDKs | TypeScript |
✓ yes · ✕ no · – no cited public fact.
Volume-backed cloud sandboxes cannot be stopped.
Sources
- https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-cloud-sandboxes-start-on-your-laptop-finish-in-the-cloud/
- https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes-api/
- https://docs.docker.com/agentic-platform/sandboxes
- https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/
- https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/cloud/usage/
- https://docs.docker.com/subscription/plans/docker-agentic-platform
Last verified 2026-10-03. Corrections land through the update log.