{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "daytona", "name": "Daytona", "vendor": "Daytona", "vendorUrl": "https://www.daytona.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Sandboxes for agent code in container, Linux VM, Windows and GPU classes, driven by SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go and Java or a REST API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/daytona.json", "repo": "https://github.com/daytona/clients", "license": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI)", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.daytona.io/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "daytona" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@daytona/sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key in the `Authorization` header. The SDKs read `DAYTONA_API_KEY`, `DAYTONA_API_URL` (default https://app.daytona.io/api) and `DAYTONA_TARGET` (us or eu). Keys take scopes, so an agent's key can have `write:sandboxes` without `delete:sandboxes`. The MCP server uses the CLI session from `daytona login`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billed per second. $0.0504 a vCPU-hour, $0.0162 a GiB-hour of memory and $0.000108 a GiB-hour of storage after the first 5 GiB, Windows $0.0858 a vCPU-hour. GPUs from $0.57 an hour (RTX 4090, preemptible) to $6.25 (B300 or B200, on demand), with H100 at $2.27 preemptible or $3.95 on demand. $200 of free compute without a card, and up to $50,000 in startup credits (https://www.daytona.io/pricing). Higher limits unlock with a linked card and a $25 top-up (Tier 2), a $500 top-up (Tier 3) or $2,000 every 30 days (Tier 4) (https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/limits.md).", "priceSummary": "$0.0504 / vCPU-hr", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6, "npmWeekly": 705790, "pypiWeekly": 1406178, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.daytona.io/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://www.daytona.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.daytona.io/docs/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist", "sandbox.browser", "sandbox.gpu" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "no-card", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "go", "eu", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 394, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 87, "security": 63, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a choice of machine, including Windows desktops and GPUs, and operators who want least-privilege keys.", "strengths": [ "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", "Rate limits published per tier, with Retry-After and rate-limit headers on 429s", "$200 of compute without a card, billed per second" ], "weaknesses": [ "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", "No security.txt, SOC 2 report or bug bounty found" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Give the agent a key without `delete:sandboxes` if it shouldn't destroy work", "Read `Retry-After-{throttler}` on a 429 before retrying sandbox creation", "Check the organisation's tier before relying on outbound calls from inside the sandbox" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 87, "security": 63, "transparency": 40 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install daytona # or npm i @daytona/sdk", "http": "curl -X POST https://app.daytona.io/api/sandbox -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DAYTONA_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add daytona -- daytona mcp start", "config": { "mcpServers": { "daytona": { "args": [ "mcp", "start" ], "command": "daytona" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/daytona" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "vCPU", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.0504, "note": "Memory extra at $0.0162 a GiB-hour" }, { "item": "Nvidia H100, on demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3.95 }, { "item": "Nvidia H100, preemptible", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 2.27 }, { "item": "Nvidia RTX 4090, preemptible", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.57 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Daytona Platforms Inc.", "domain": "daytona.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.daytona.io/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.daytona.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.app.daytona.io", "changelog": "https://www.daytona.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy (both updated 22 August 2025) name Daytona Platforms Inc., 224 W 35th St, New York, under Delaware law.", "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.", "www.daytona.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. daytona/clients has a SECURITY.md.", "The .io registry's RDAP server rate-limited our lookups, so the registration date is blank." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.json", "live": { "slug": "daytona", "probe": { "target": "https://app.daytona.io/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:35.392273191Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 102, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 106, "p95ms24h": 183, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 4233, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.app.daytona.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:50:56.980326458Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "daytona/clients", "version": "v0.225.0", "released": "2026-10-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:43:39.549094429Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@daytona/sdk", "version": "0.225.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:43:38.631082564Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "daytona", "version": "0.225.0", "released": "2026-10-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:43:38.506224549Z" } ], "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": 492732, "pypiWeekly": 2359681, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://daytona.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:51:38.530738735Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:21:57.457768222Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "daytona.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:21:30.303837615Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:56.458229208Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:56.458229208Z", "fingerprint": "5e37add42e49" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:59.781897389Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:39:05.586773215Z", "fingerprint": "fd66897232a4" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:15:00.907945125Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:39:06.628567797Z", "fingerprint": "7f92a78e9bf5" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:15:02.996523092Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:39:08.672460374Z", "fingerprint": "f5dde9349052" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:35.392273191Z" } }, "answer": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Offscreen's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Offscreen leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "offscreen", "name": "Offscreen", "vendor": "Mark Phelps", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/markphelps/offscreen", "kind": "sdk", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Offscreen is an open-source macOS command-line tool, daemon and menu bar app that runs a coding agent's UI tests, iOS Simulator runs and GUI app launches in a fresh Tart virtual machine per job, away from the user's desktop.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/offscreen.json", "repo": "https://github.com/markphelps/offscreen", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key. The CLI talks to the local daemon over an owner-only Unix socket (mode 0600), and anyone who can open it is trusted. The daemon reaches each guest VM over SSH with the base image's login, `admin` and `admin` by default, or a configured key. A person grants Local Network to Offscreen Daemon on the first VM job, and Input Monitoring and Notifications to the menu bar app only for host-lane jobs.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT with nothing to buy. It depends on Tart, installed by the cask from the `openai/tools/tart` formula under FSL-1.1-ALv2, whose licensing page says use on personal computers is royalty-free and organisations above 100 host CPU cores need a paid licence, from $12,000 a year. Needs an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later and full Xcode.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, the docs or the skill (checked 2026-10-17). The tool has no paid tier and makes no network calls of its own beyond the local socket and the guest SSH connection.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/markphelps/offscreen#readme", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "no-auth", "mit", "macos", "ios", "apple-silicon", "go", "swift", "cli", "agent-skill", "vm", "beta", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 456, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 60, "reliability": 55, "schema": 67, "security": 62, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent on an Apple silicon Mac can run XCUITest, the iOS Simulator or an app it built in a throwaway VM and read the exit code, logs and screenshots without taking the person's screen. The project is six days old at v0.0.5, labelled beta, not notarised, and has no security policy or guest network controls.", "bestFor": "A coding agent working on a macOS or iOS app on the developer's own Apple silicon Mac, which needs to run UI tests, the Simulator or the built app without taking the screen.", "strengths": [ "A fresh VM per job, deleted afterwards, and a VM task receives only the worktree, listed build products and four `OFFSCREEN_*` variables, not the host environment", "`offscreen run` exits with the wrapped command's code, and Offscreen's own failures use 75 for a queue timeout and 70 for daemon or VM errors", "One queue on the Mac for every agent, terminal and script, with `--detach`, `status`, `logs -f`, `artifacts` and `cancel`", "The skill lists what an agent must not run without asking, such as `--show`, the host lane, `--keep`, prune and image builds", "MIT, with no network code or telemetry found in the source beyond the local socket and guest SSH" ], "weaknesses": [ "First commit 11 October 2026, version 0.0.5 and labelled beta, with JSON field names that may change before 1.0", "Apple silicon macOS 14 or later with full Xcode only, at most two VMs at once, and a large one-time image download", "Ad hoc signed and not notarised. The cask strips the quarantine attribute, and there is no SECURITY.md or security.txt", "No egress or network policy for the guest is documented, and `[prepare] run` executes on the host with the caller's environment", "End-to-end VM tests run only on a developer's Mac, because GitHub-hosted macOS runners can't run Tart VMs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read `.offscreen.toml` before running anything and use its `project` key and task names. Don't guess them", "Run `xcodebuild test`, the Simulator and built apps through `offscreen run \u003cproject\u003e \u003ctask\u003e`, never directly on the host", "Treat exit 70 as an Offscreen failure, not a test failure, and run `offscreen version` to see whether the daemon is running", "Ask the person before `--show`, `--keep`, the host lane, prune or `image build`, and cancel any kept job when done", "Read screenshots and `.xcresult` bundles from the directory `offscreen artifacts \u003cjob\u003e` prints" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 60, "reliability": 55, "schema": 67, "security": 62, "transparency": 72 }, "provenanceScore": 40 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install --cask markphelps/tap/offscreen \u0026\u0026 open -a Offscreen \u0026\u0026 offscreen image build", "headless": { "artifacts": "offscreen artifacts \u003cjob\u003e", "check": "offscreen check", "detach": "offscreen run \u003cproject\u003e \u003ctask\u003e --detach", "init": "offscreen init", "oneOff": "offscreen run \u003cproject\u003e -- swift test", "run": "offscreen run \u003cproject\u003e \u003ctask\u003e", "skill": "npx skills add markphelps/offscreen", "status": "offscreen status -a --format json" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/offscreen" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mark Phelps (individual)", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The project has no website. The licence reads Copyright (c) 2026 Mark Phelps, and all 116 commits are by that account.", "The app and daemon use the bundle identifiers io.latentsignal.offscreen and io.latentsignal.offscreend. latentsignal.io belongs to Latent Signal Labs, LLC, a solo studio whose page links x.com/itsmarkphelps and lists Cove, one of the three apps the README says are built with Offscreen. The page does not name Offscreen.", "No terms, privacy policy, changelog file, SECURITY.md or security.txt. GitHub release notes could not be read.", "The software runs on the owner's Mac, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 40 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Daytona", "b": "Mark Phelps", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.daytona.io/api", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI)", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-22", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-08-22", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Offscreen's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Offscreen leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Daytona or Offscreen?" }, { "answer": "Daytona has a hosted endpoint at https://app.daytona.io/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Offscreen.", "question": "Can an agent call Daytona and Offscreen without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Daytona. Offscreen is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Daytona and Offscreen open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 55", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 67", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 66" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need a choice of machine, including Windows desktops and GPUs, and operators who want least-privilege keys.", "slug": "daytona", "watchFor": "The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 55", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A coding agent working on a macOS or iOS app on the developer's own Apple silicon Mac, which needs to run UI tests, the Simulator or the built app without taking the screen.", "slug": "offscreen", "watchFor": "First commit 11 October 2026, version 0.0.5 and labelled beta, with JSON field names that may change before 1.0" } ], "job": { "capability": "sandbox.code", "name": "Code sandboxes" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-offscreen" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-daytona.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Daytona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-daytona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-offscreen" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-daytona.json", "title": "Blaxel Sandboxes vs Daytona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-daytona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "Blaxel Sandboxes vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-offscreen" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-daytona.json", "title": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Daytona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-daytona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-offscreen" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-deltabox-lite.json", "title": "Daytona vs DeltaBox Lite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-deltabox-lite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-deno-sandbox.json", "title": "Daytona vs Deno Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-deno-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-e2b.json", "title": "Daytona vs E2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-e2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-freestyle.json", "title": "Daytona vs Freestyle", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-freestyle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-microsoft-execution-containers.json", "title": "Daytona vs Microsoft Execution Containers", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-microsoft-execution-containers" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-modal-sandboxes.json", "title": "Daytona vs Modal Sandboxes", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-modal-sandboxes" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Daytona vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-perplexity-space.json", "title": "Daytona vs SPACE", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-perplexity-space" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-runloop.json", "title": "Daytona vs Runloop Devboxes", "url": 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37 Cloud vs Daytona", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-daytona" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-offscreen" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 5, "daytona": 60, "edge": "daytona", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "offscreen": 55, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "daytona": 87, "edge": "daytona", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "offscreen": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "daytona": 55, "edge": "offscreen", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "offscreen": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "daytona": 63, "edge": "daytona", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "offscreen": 62, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "daytona": 50, "edge": "offscreen", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "offscreen": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "daytona": 80, "edge": "daytona", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "offscreen": 66, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 0, "daytona": 56, "edge": "", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "offscreen": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Offscreen's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Offscreen leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do code sandboxes.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "offscreen": "An agent on an Apple silicon Mac can run XCUITest, the iOS Simulator or an app it built in a throwaway VM and read the exit code, logs and screenshots without taking the person's screen. The project is six days old at v0.0.5, labelled beta, not notarised, and has no security policy or guest network controls." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen.min.md" }, "markdown": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Offscreen's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Offscreen leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do code sandboxes.\n\n- Daytona: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #394 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/daytona.json\n- Offscreen: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #456 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/offscreen.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/offscreen.json\n- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md\n- All 153 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Daytona (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a choice of machine, including Windows desktops and GPUs, and operators who want least-privilege keys.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 55\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 67\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own\n\n### Offscreen (B)\n\nGood for: A coding agent working on a macOS or iOS app on the developer's own Apple silicon Mac, which needs to run UI tests, the Simulator or the built app without taking the screen.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First commit 11 October 2026, version 0.0.5 and labelled beta, with JSON field names that may change before 1.0\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Daytona | Offscreen | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 55 | Daytona +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 67 | Daytona +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 74 | Offscreen +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 62 | Daytona +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | Offscreen +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 66 | Daytona +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 56 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Daytona | Offscreen |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Daytona | Mark Phelps |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\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**Offscreen.** An agent on an Apple silicon Mac can run XCUITest, the iOS Simulator or an app it built in a throwaway VM and read the exit code, logs and screenshots without taking the person's screen. The project is six days old at v0.0.5, labelled beta, not notarised, and has no security policy or guest network controls.\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### Offscreen\n\n1. Read `.offscreen.toml` before running anything and use its `project` key and task names. Don't guess them\n2. Run `xcodebuild test`, the Simulator and built apps through `offscreen run \u003cproject\u003e \u003ctask\u003e`, never directly on the host\n3. Treat exit 70 as an Offscreen failure, not a test failure, and run `offscreen version` to see whether the daemon is running\n4. Ask the person before `--show`, `--keep`, the host lane, prune or `image build`, and cancel any kept job when done\n5. Read screenshots and `.xcresult` bundles from the directory `offscreen artifacts \u003cjob\u003e` prints\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Daytona or Offscreen?\n\nDaytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Offscreen's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Offscreen leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call Daytona and Offscreen without installing anything?\n\nDaytona has a hosted endpoint at https://app.daytona.io/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Offscreen.\n\n### Are Daytona and Offscreen open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Daytona. Offscreen is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-offscreen.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"daytona\", \"b\": \"offscreen\"}`. 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