# DeltaBox Lite vs Freestyle (slim)

> Freestyle scores 58.5 (C) to DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D) for sandbox fs. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Freestyle scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments & pricing. Both do sandbox fs.

- DeltaBox Lite: D 52.3, rank #825 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.min.md
- Freestyle: C 58.5, rank #635 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.min.md
- DeltaBox Lite, good for A developer who wants a local coding agent's file edits held as a reviewable transaction on Linux or macOS, with commit or abort per task or per tool call. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 45. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Freestyle, good for Suited to long-running agent work that needs a full Linux VM, memory-preserving pause, snapshots to branch from and private networking. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 37; Schema & documentation, 86 against 68; Security & auth, 53 against 47; Maintenance & community, 71 against 43. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | DeltaBox Lite | Freestyle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 37 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 43 | 71 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 40 | 41 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeltaBox Lite | Freestyle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | Freestyle Cloud Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.freestyle.sh/v5` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service with no published terms of service found. The `freestyle` SDK and CLI package on npm is MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-27 |
| Popularity | none | 72k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |