# Agent 37 Cloud vs Daytona (slim)

> Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Agent 37 Cloud's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Agent 37 Cloud leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox persist. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Agent 37 Cloud's 46.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Agent 37 Cloud leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox persist.

- Agent 37 Cloud: D 46.1, rank #650 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent37.min.md
- Daytona: B 64.3, rank #279 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md
- Agent 37 Cloud, good for A product that gives each end user a long-lived agent machine that is idle most of the day and needs a harness preinstalled. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 60 against 55.
- Daytona, good for Agents that need a choice of machine, including Windows desktops and GPUs, and operators who want least-privilege keys. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 27; Schema & documentation, 87 against 57; Security & auth, 63 against 49; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 80 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Agent 37 Cloud | Daytona |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 27 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 57 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 60 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 49 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent 37 Cloud | Daytona |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent 37 Inc. | Daytona |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.agent37.com/v1` | `https://app.daytona.io/api` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Agent 37's terms of service. The template Dockerfiles and example apps on GitHub are MIT, and the `agent37` CLI on npm is Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-04 | 2025-08-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2025-08-22 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 74 npm/wk | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |