{ "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": 320, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "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": "2026-10-09T11:46:26.504877198Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 107, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 106, "p95ms24h": 167, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2109, "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": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.app.daytona.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:57:47.041472134Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "daytona/clients", "version": "v0.223.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:07:59.235643031Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@daytona/sdk", "version": "0.223.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:07:56.298006682Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "daytona", "version": "0.223.0", "released": "2026-10-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:07:56.168303679Z" } ], "githubStars": 13, "npmWeekly": 754322, "pypiWeekly": 1558208, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://daytona.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:36.850747632Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:18.273054429Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "daytona.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:31.91436109Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:18.444429554Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:11:34.123095103Z", "fingerprint": "e3e95e827d6a" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:21.539160036Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:37:58.260333039Z", "fingerprint": "8c2c3fd83e7e" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:22.921547198Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:37:59.162897733Z", "fingerprint": "c712b184a1f3" }, { "url": "https://www.daytona.io/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:24.654038357Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:38:01.284671381Z", "fingerprint": "c42adfc2b432" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:26.504877198Z" } }, "answer": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on agent ergonomics.", "b": { "slug": "sprites", "name": "Sprites", "vendor": "Fly.io", "vendorUrl": "https://fly.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Sprites are hosted Linux microVMs from Fly.io that keep their disk between runs, pause when idle and wake on request. They are driven through a REST API, a CLI, four SDKs or a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprites.json", "repo": "https://github.com/superfly/sprites-js", "license": "Proprietary service under the Fly.io Terms of Service. The JavaScript, Go, Python and Elixir SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@fly/sprites" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "sprites-py" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A bearer token created at sprites.dev/account after signing in with a Fly.io account, sent as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.sprites.dev`. Tokens belong to an organisation, and no scopes or expiry were found in the reviewed docs. The CLI signs in through a browser with `sprite org auth` or takes a token with `sprite auth setup --token`. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth with a token restricted by default to a name prefix and a capped number of Sprites.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.0385 a CPU-hour and $0.021875 a GB-hour of memory while a Sprite is active, hot storage at $0.000683 a GB-hour while awake and cold storage at $0.000027 a GB-hour while data is kept. Nothing is charged per Sprite or for bandwidth. New organisations get a $30 trial credit, and whether it needs a card was not established. The product page also describes monthly plans with allowances, of which Hero ($100) and Mythic ($2,000) are priced (https://fly.io/sprites/, https://fly.io/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$0.0385 / vCPU-hr", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Sprites docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 157565, "pypiWeekly": 58695, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.fly.io/sprites", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.fly.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.fly.io/sprites/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "microvm", "persistent", "checkpoints", "openapi", "cli", "typescript", "python", "go", "elixir", "mcp", "llms-txt", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 528, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 74, "security": 59, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08: the Fly.io pricing page says of Sprites \"No plans and no tiers\", while the Sprites product page read the same day describes paid plans (Hero at $100 a month, Mythic at $2,000) that carry usage allowances and set concurrency and creation-rate limits. Prices for the other named plans were not found. 2 points. https://fly.io/pricing/ and https://fly.io/sprites/" ], "verdict": "A Sprite keeps a 100 GB ext4 disk between runs, bills compute only while active and can be checkpointed and restored through a published OpenAPI contract. The status page records four Sprites incidents in the last 90 days, one lasting over seven hours, and outbound network access is unrestricted until a policy is set.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a long-lived machine with installed tools and files kept between sessions, and rollback by checkpoint.", "strengths": [ "The filesystem persists across pauses, and compute billing stops about 30 seconds after activity ends, per the lifecycle docs", "A public OpenAPI 3.1 document covers 44 operations on sprites, exec, files, checkpoints, services and policies, with an AsyncAPI file for the WebSocket calls", "Connectors hold third-party credentials outside the Sprite, deny access by default and can limit which provider paths a Sprite may call", "Checkpoints are copy-on-write snapshots of the writable filesystem, and the last five are mounted read-only inside the Sprite", "Unit prices are public, $0.0385 a CPU-hour, $0.021875 a GB-hour of memory and about $0.50 a GB-month of hot storage", "Official SDKs for JavaScript, Go, Python and Elixir are MIT, each with releases in September or October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Four Sprites incidents on the status page in 90 days, including a partial outage of 7 hours 28 minutes on 23 September 2026 and failed creates outside Europe for 28 minutes on 8 October", "Outbound network access is unrestricted by default. The DNS allowlist is opt-in and set from outside the Sprite", "The product page creates a Sprite with `PUT /v1/sprites/my-sprite` and a JSON `command` body, while the OpenAPI document creates with `POST /v1/sprites` and passes `cmd` as a query parameter", "No API changelog, deprecation policy or error-code reference was found in the reviewed documentation", "The pricing page says Sprites have no plans and no tiers, while the product page describes paid plans that set concurrency and creation-rate limits", "No scopes were found for API tokens created at sprites.dev/account. Only the MCP connector's OAuth token is restricted by default" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a token at sprites.dev/account after a browser signup, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.sprites.dev`", "Follow the OpenAPI document, not the product page example. Create with `POST /v1/sprites` and a JSON `name`, and run commands with `POST /v1/sprites/{name}/exec` using `cmd` query parameters", "Set a network policy with `POST /v1/sprites/{name}/policy/network` before running untrusted code. Egress is open until one is set", "Processes started by exec stop on a cold wake. Define a Service for anything that must answer the request that wakes the Sprite", "Create a checkpoint before a restore. Restoring replaces the filesystem, ends active sessions and keeps no copy of the replaced state", "Sprite creation is limited to 10 a minute on pay-as-you-go. The Go SDK reads `Retry-After` and the error code `sprite_creation_rate_limited` on a 429", "Delete Sprites you no longer need. An idle Sprite still bills cold storage for the bytes it holds" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 55, "schema": 74, "security": 59, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 64 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://sprites.dev/install.sh | sh # CLI. SDKs: npm install @fly/sprites, pip install sprites-py", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.sprites.dev/v1/sprites -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SPRITES_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"name\": \"my-sprite\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sprites" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "CPU time while active", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.0385, "note": "Memory extra at $0.021875 a GB-hour" }, { "item": "Hot storage while the Sprite is awake", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Billed at $0.000683 a GB-hour, on bytes written" }, { "item": "Cold storage while data is kept", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Billed at $0.000027 a GB-hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Fly.io, Inc.", "domain": "fly.io", "domainRegistered": "2004-07-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://fly.io/legal/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://fly.io/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.flyio.net", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 29 April 2026) name Fly.io, Inc. and cover the website and all products and services reached through it. No separate Sprites terms were found.", "The Privacy Statement is effective 24 September 2026. The sub-processor list was last updated the same day.", "The API is at api.sprites.dev and Sprite URLs are on sprites.app, second domains of the vendor's. sprites.dev redirects to fly.io/sprites, and RDAP gives its registration date as 2025-06-03.", "RDAP for fly.io gives a registration date of 2004-07-15.", "fly.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. The security docs give security@fly.io for reports.", "No changelog for the Sprites API or environment was found. The Python SDK repository keeps a CHANGELOG.md." ], "score": 64 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.json", "live": { "slug": "sprites", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.flyio.net", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:56.628559896Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:56.628559896Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Daytona", "b": "Fly.io", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.daytona.io/api", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI)", "b": "Proprietary service under the Fly.io Terms of Service. The JavaScript, Go, Python and Elixir SDKs are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-22", "b": "2026-04-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-08-22", "b": "2026-09-24", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk", "b": "158k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Daytona or Sprites?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Daytona and Sprites need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Daytona has a hosted endpoint at https://app.daytona.io/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Sprites.", "question": "Can an agent call Daytona and Sprites without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 55", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 74", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card" ], "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, 68 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that need a long-lived machine with installed tools and files kept between sessions, and rollback by checkpoint.", "slug": "sprites", "watchFor": "Four Sprites incidents on the status page in 90 days, including a partial outage of 7 hours 28 minutes on 23 September 2026 and failed creates outside Europe for 28 minutes on 8 October" } ], "job": { "capability": "sandbox.code", "name": "Sandbox code" }, "others": [ { "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-sprites.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Sprites", "url": 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"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-runloop.json", "title": "Daytona vs Runloop Devboxes", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-runloop" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "title": "Daytona vs Together Code Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-together-code-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-vercel-sandbox.json", "title": "Daytona vs Vercel Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-vercel-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deno-sandbox-vs-sprites.json", "title": "Deno Sandbox vs Sprites", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deno-sandbox-vs-sprites" }, { "json": 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"edge": "daytona", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sprites": 55, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "daytona": 87, "edge": "daytona", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sprites": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "daytona": 55, "edge": "sprites", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sprites": 68, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "daytona": 63, "edge": "daytona", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sprites": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "daytona": 50, "edge": "daytona", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sprites": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "daytona": 80, "edge": "", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sprites": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 3, "daytona": 56, "edge": "sprites", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sprites": 59, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code.", "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.", "sprites": "A Sprite keeps a 100 GB ext4 disk between runs, bills compute only while active and can be checkpointed and restored through a published OpenAPI contract. The status page records four Sprites incidents in the last 90 days, one lasting over seven hours, and outbound network access is unrestricted until a policy is set." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites.min.md" }, "markdown": "Daytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on agent ergonomics. Both do sandbox code.\n\n- Daytona: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #320 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/daytona.json\n- Sprites: grade C, 58.3/100, rank #528 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sprites.json\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 74\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The container class shares the host kernel. Only the VM classes get their own\n\n### Sprites (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a long-lived machine with installed tools and files kept between sessions, and rollback by checkpoint.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 55\n\nWatch for: Four Sprites incidents on the status page in 90 days, including a partial outage of 7 hours 28 minutes on 23 September 2026 and failed creates outside Europe for 28 minutes on 8 October\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Daytona | Sprites | 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 | 74 | Daytona +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 68 | Sprites +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 59 | Daytona +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | Daytona +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 80 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 59 | Sprites +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **58.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Daytona | Sprites |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Daytona | Fly.io |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs and API clients), AGPL-3.0 (CLI) | Proprietary service under the Fly.io Terms of Service. The JavaScript, Go, Python and Elixir SDKs are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-04-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 158k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\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**Sprites.** A Sprite keeps a 100 GB ext4 disk between runs, bills compute only while active and can be checkpointed and restored through a published OpenAPI contract. The status page records four Sprites incidents in the last 90 days, one lasting over seven hours, and outbound network access is unrestricted until a policy is set.\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### Sprites\n\n1. Create a token at sprites.dev/account after a browser signup, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.sprites.dev`\n2. Follow the OpenAPI document, not the product page example. Create with `POST /v1/sprites` and a JSON `name`, and run commands with `POST /v1/sprites/{name}/exec` using `cmd` query parameters\n3. Set a network policy with `POST /v1/sprites/{name}/policy/network` before running untrusted code. Egress is open until one is set\n4. Processes started by exec stop on a cold wake. Define a Service for anything that must answer the request that wakes the Sprite\n5. Create a checkpoint before a restore. Restoring replaces the filesystem, ends active sessions and keeps no copy of the replaced state\n6. Sprite creation is limited to 10 a minute on pay-as-you-go. The Go SDK reads `Retry-After` and the error code `sprite_creation_rate_limited` on a 429\n7. Delete Sprites you no longer need. An idle Sprite still bills cold storage for the bytes it holds\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Daytona or Sprites?\n\nDaytona scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against Sprites's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Sprites leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Daytona and Sprites need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Daytona and Sprites without installing anything?\n\nDaytona has a hosted endpoint at https://app.daytona.io/api. No hosted endpoint is listed for Sprites.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-sprites.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"daytona\", \"b\": \"sprites\"}`. 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