# Daytona vs Sprites (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Daytona: B 64.3, rank #320 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/daytona.min.md
- Sprites: C 58.3, rank #528 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.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 55; Schema & documentation, 87 against 74; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Sprites, good for Agents that need a long-lived machine with installed tools and files kept between sessions, and rollback by checkpoint. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 68 against 55.

| Category | Daytona | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Daytona | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Daytona | Fly.io |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.daytona.io/api` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-04-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-22 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 6 stars, 706k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 158k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |