# Daytona vs Modal Sandboxes (slim)

> Modal Sandboxes has a score of 75.6 (BB) against Daytona's 64.4 (B). Both do sandbox code. The largest gap is reliability, 35 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Modal Sandboxes has a score of 75.6 (BB) against Daytona's 64.4 (B). Both do sandbox code. The largest gap is reliability, 35 points.

- Daytona: B 64.4, rank #183 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md
- Modal Sandboxes: BB 75.6, rank #33 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal-sandboxes.min.md
- Pick Daytona for schema & documentation (+8), payments & pricing (+10). Pick Modal Sandboxes for reliability (+35), agent ergonomics (+12), security & auth (+13), maintenance & community (+13), transparency & trust (+16).

| Category | Daytona | Modal Sandboxes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 95 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 76 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 93 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 74 |