# Daytona vs Deno Sandbox (slim)

> Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Deno Sandbox's 50.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Deno Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Deno Sandbox's 50.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Deno Sandbox leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code.

- Daytona: B 64.3, rank #320 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md
- Deno Sandbox: D 50.3, rank #689 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deno-sandbox.min.md
- 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 48; Schema & documentation, 87 against 66; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 80 against 45. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Deno Sandbox, good for Short runs of untrusted or generated code that need outside API keys kept out of reach, and teams already on Deno Deploy who want to promote a sandbox to an app. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 60 against 55.

| Category | Daytona | Deno Sandbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 45 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Daytona | Deno Sandbox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Daytona | Deno Land Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | Proprietary service under the Deno Deploy terms and conditions. The `@deno/sandbox` and `deno-sandbox` SDKs are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-07-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 6 stars, 2k npm/wk, 32k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |