# Daytona

API-driven sandboxes for AI agents (Linux containers by default, Linux and Windows VMs, GPUs), billed per second for reserved vCPU, memory and disk.

- Operated by: Daytona Platforms Inc.
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://www.daytona.io
- Categories: Agent sandboxes
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Daytona sandboxes (Agent sandboxes)

- Price: $0.0504 /vCPU-h (+ $0.0162 per GB-hour)
- 1-hour session: ≥ $0.166 (2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 14 of 26)
- Fleet month: ≥ $1,457 (50 × 8 h × 22 days)
- Billed on: Running time (per second)
- Isolation: Container (sessions up to Unlimited)

### Billing

- Payment: Metered: usage billed afterwards [1]
- Plan minimum: None [1]
- Billing increment: Per second [1]
- Minimum charge: unknown (No minimum billed duration on the pricing page or the billing docs) [1]
- Per-job fee: None [1]

### Runtime

- Billed on: Running time [1]
- Isolation: Container [1]
- Max session: Unlimited [1]
- Concurrent sandboxes: unknown (No sandbox count; concurrency is bounded by the tier's pooled compute (Tier 1: 10 vCPU / 10-20 GiB RAM / 30 GiB disk)) [1]
- Largest vCPU: 4 [1]
- Largest memory: 8 GB [1]

### Lifecycle

- Survives a stop: Disk and memory [3]
- Snapshots: Yes [3]
- Pause and resume: Yes [3]
- Fork: Memory and processes [3]
- Compute billed while stopped: No [3]
- Auto-stop: after 15 min [3]
- Start time (vendor claim): 90 ms [3]

### Capabilities

- GPU: Yes [4]
- Desktop: Computer-use API [4]
- Coding agents installed: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw [4]
- Agent prompt API: No [4]
- SSH: Yes [4]
- Docker inside: Yes [4]
- SDKs: Python, TypeScript, Go, CLI, REST, MCP [4]
- SOC 2: Yes [4]

### Storage and network

- Disk included: 5 GB [5]
- Extra disk: unknown (Published per hour only: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after the first 5 GiB; not converted to a monthly figure) [5]
- Snapshot storage: unknown (Billing docs say snapshots created from a sandbox stay billed for storage but give no separate rate) [5]
- Egress: unknown (Not on the pricing page or in the billing, limits or network docs) [5]

### Platform

- Regions: us, eu [2]
- Your cloud (BYOC): Yes [2]
- Self-host: No [2]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [1]
- Credit a month: None [1]
- One-time credit: $200 [1]

### Prices

| Resource | Price | Per hour |
|---|---|---|
| per vCPU | $0.0504 /h [1] | $0.0504 |
| per GB of memory | $0.0162 /h [1] | $0.0162 |

- Billed per second for reserved vCPU, memory and disk while a sandbox runs; stopped and paused sandboxes bill disk only, archived ones nothing.
- Disk costs $0.000108 per GiB-hour after the first 5 GiB.
- Windows sandboxes cost $0.0858 per vCPU-hour.
- On-demand GPUs per hour: B300 $6.25, B200 $6.25, MI355X $5.99, H200 $4.54, H100 $3.95, RTX PRO 6000 $3.03, RTX 5090 $1.29, RTX 4090 $0.99. Spot (preemptible, Tier 2+): $4.08, $3.59, $3.44, $2.61, $2.27, $1.74, $0.74, $0.57.
- GPU sandboxes are ephemeral (deleted on stop), take up to 8 GPUs and need GPU credits; free credit does not cover them.
- Limits come from verification tiers: Tier 1 (email) 10 vCPU / 10 GiB RAM (20 GiB in a second table) / 30 GiB disk pooled across sandboxes; Tier 2 ($25 top-up) 100 / 200 GiB / 300 GiB; Tier 3 ($500) 250 / 500 GiB / 2,000 GiB; Tier 4 ($2,000 every 30 days) 500 / 1,000 GiB / 5,000 GiB.
- Pause, fork and memory snapshots work only on Linux VM and Windows sandboxes; container sandboxes stop, archive and take filesystem snapshots.
- Tier 1 and 2 sandboxes have restricted outbound internet access.
- Startups can get up to $50k in credits; Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs, larger limits and dedicated regions.
- The sub-90 ms start is Daytona's own claim.

## Sources

[1] https://www.daytona.io/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/bring-your-own-compute (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/architecture (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/billing (checked 31 Oct 2026)