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          "API keys with per-action scopes, so an agent can create sandboxes without being able to delete them",
          "Container, Linux VM, Windows and GPU sandbox classes behind one API",
          "Three public OpenAPI files, llms.txt and SDKs in five languages",
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          "The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own",
          "Full internet access and per-sandbox allow lists need Tier 3",
          "Platform code went private in June 2026, and the old repository's 311 open issues won't be answered",
          "Two Windows runner outages over an hour in July and August 2026",
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          "Pick a Linux VM class for untrusted code or when memory must survive a pause. Container sandboxes stop and archive instead",
          "Set autoStopInterval yourself. The 15-minute idle default can stop a sandbox while the agent is still thinking",
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          "Read `Retry-After-{throttler}` on a 429 before retrying sandbox creation",
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          "The status page lists Windows runner outages on 31 July (3 hours 50 minutes) and 1 August 2026 (1 hour 40 minutes), a 17.5-hour regional degradation on 11 August, short incidents in July and September, and a 2-hour degradation of sandbox listing on 1 October 2026.",
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      "name": "Modal Sandboxes",
      "vendor": "Modal",
      "vendorUrl": "https://modal.com",
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      "summary": "Modal's sandboxed compute environments for running code, with SDK access, GPU support and filesystem snapshots.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/modal-labs/modal-client",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
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          "registry": "pypi",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "modal"
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      "auth": "api-key",
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      "pricing": "freemium",
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      "priceSummary": "$0.071 / vCPU-hr",
      "where": "local",
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        "level": "no",
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      "docsUrl": "https://modal.com/docs/guide/sandboxes",
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        "enterprise"
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        "assessment": {
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          "date": "2026-10-01"
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          "GPU sandboxes at the same per-second rates as the rest of Modal",
          "Outbound traffic blockable or limited to CIDR ranges, and no inbound connections without tunnels",
          "$30 of compute every month on Starter, no card",
          "SOC 2 Type 2, a private HackerOne bounty and stated fix times for vulnerabilities",
          "One status-page incident in 90 days, 14 minutes in mid-September 2026"
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          "Default lifetime of 5 minutes and a hard maximum of 24 hours",
          "gVisor rather than a VM unless you're on Team or Enterprise for the VM runtime",
          "Memory snapshots are alpha, kept 7 days, and end the sandbox",
          "No security.txt, and audit logs only on Enterprise"
        ],
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          "Pass `timeout=` when you create a sandbox. The default lifetime is 5 minutes",
          "Set `block_network=True` or a `cidr_allowlist` for untrusted code",
          "Give a sandbox a `name` so a retried create raises `AlreadyExistsError` instead of starting a second one",
          "Snapshot the filesystem before the 24-hour limit and start a fresh sandbox from it",
          "Catch `ResourceExhaustedError` from `Sandbox.create()` on SDK 1.6.0 and later"
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        "provenanceScore": 88
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install modal  # or npm i modal"
      },
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        },
        {
          "item": "Team plan",
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          "usd": 250,
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        "domainRegistered": "1999-03-18",
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        "privacy": "https://modal.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.modal.com",
        "changelog": "https://modal.com/docs/sdk/py/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
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          "Terms (May 2026) name Modal Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, under California law.",
          "Sandboxes are reached through the SDK rather than a documented public endpoint, so there's no endpoint URL to check against the domain.",
          "modal.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security guide gives security@modal.com and a private HackerOne programme."
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          "page": "https://status.modal.com",
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          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
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            "version": "1.6.1",
            "released": "2026-10-03",
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          "url": "https://modal.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:42.140189006Z"
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          "url": "https://modal.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:59.208696898Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "modal.com",
          "registered": "1999-03-18",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/modal.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:03:51.14581991Z"
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:02.530693875Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:02.530693875Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://modal.com/pricing",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:09.066130964Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "ebb11d7b0f6a"
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          {
            "url": "https://modal.com/legal/privacy-policy",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:05.494045324Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "ba881cee4162"
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            "url": "https://modal.com/legal/terms",
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            "status": 200,
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "94e2edecd464"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/modal-sandboxes.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Daytona for schema \u0026 documentation (+8), payments \u0026 pricing (+10).\n\nPick Modal Sandboxes for reliability (+35), agent ergonomics (+12), security \u0026 auth (+13), maintenance \u0026 community (+13), transparency \u0026 trust (+16).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Daytona | Modal Sandboxes | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 95 | Modal Sandboxes +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 79 | Daytona +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 67 | Modal Sandboxes +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 76 | Modal Sandboxes +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 40 | Daytona +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 93 | Modal Sandboxes +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 74 | Modal Sandboxes +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.4 · B** | **75.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Daytona | Modal Sandboxes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Daytona | Modal |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 514 stars, 941k npm/wk, 10.1M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Daytona.** API keys with per-action scopes, so an agent can create sandboxes without being able to delete them. The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own.\n\n**Modal Sandboxes.** GPU sandboxes at the same per-second rates as the rest of Modal. No REST API, and the JavaScript and Go SDKs are beta.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Daytona\n\n1. Pick a Linux VM class for untrusted code or when memory must survive a pause. Container sandboxes stop and archive instead\n2. Set autoStopInterval yourself. The 15-minute idle default can stop a sandbox while the agent is still thinking\n3. Give the agent a key without `delete:sandboxes` if it shouldn't destroy work\n4. Read `Retry-After-{throttler}` on a 429 before retrying sandbox creation\n5. Check the organisation's tier before relying on outbound calls from inside the sandbox\n\n### Modal Sandboxes\n\n1. Pass `timeout=` when you create a sandbox. The default lifetime is 5 minutes\n2. Set `block_network=True` or a `cidr_allowlist` for untrusted code\n3. Give a sandbox a `name` so a retried create raises `AlreadyExistsError` instead of starting a second one\n4. Snapshot the filesystem before the 24-hour limit and start a fresh sandbox from it\n5. Catch `ResourceExhaustedError` from `Sandbox.create()` on SDK 1.6.0 and later\n\n## Other comparisons with Daytona or Modal Sandboxes\n\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Daytona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-daytona.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Daytona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-daytona.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [Daytona vs E2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-e2b.md)\n- [Daytona vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-runloop.md)\n- [Daytona vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n- [E2B vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [Modal Sandboxes vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-sandboxes-vs-runloop.md)\n- [Modal Sandboxes vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-sandboxes-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n",
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