# Daytona vs SPACE (slim)

> Daytona scores 64.3 (B) to SPACE's 56.2 (C) for code sandboxes. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SPACE leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do code sandboxes.

- Daytona: B 64.3, rank #384 of 1098 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md
- SPACE: C 56.2, rank #683 of 1098 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.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 32; Schema & documentation, 87 against 75; Maintenance & community, 80 against 26. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- SPACE, good for Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 66 against 55; Payments & pricing, 60 against 50; Transparency & trust, 68 against 56. Also Open source.

| Category | Daytona | SPACE |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 32 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 26 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Daytona | SPACE |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Daytona | Perplexity |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |