{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "deltabox-lite", "name": "DeltaBox Lite", "vendor": "DeltaBox (delta-box)", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/delta-box", "kind": "sdk", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "DeltaBox Lite is an open-source local sandbox runtime for AI coding agents on Linux and macOS. Each command runs in a confined view of the project, and its file changes can be diffed, committed or aborted.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.json", "repo": "https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "deltabox-lite" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account, key or sign-in. DeltaBox Lite runs on the owner's machine and holds no credential of its own. Every sandboxed command starts with an empty environment plus nine copied variables (LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LOGNAME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, TZ, USER), so supervisor API keys are not inherited unless passed explicitly with `--env` or `session.exec.env` (https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/docs/policy.md).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free. Apache-2.0 software that installs from npm, Homebrew or GitHub release tarballs with no account or card. There is no hosted service and nothing to buy. Compute is the owner's own machine (checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source. Local open-source software with no paid endpoint (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/README.md", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.code", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-auth", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "rust", "cli", "json-rpc", "linux", "macos", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.3, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 825, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 60, "reliability": 37, "schema": 68, "security": 47, "transparency": 40 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0, free and local, installing from npm, Homebrew or checksummed release tarballs for Linux and macOS on x64 and arm64", "Every command's file changes can be diffed, committed or aborted, with a checkpoint chain and conflict-checked commits", "Sandboxed commands start with an empty environment plus nine named variables, and common secret paths such as `.env`, `.ssh` and `*.pem` are denied by default", "One-line transactions (`deltabox run --commit` or `--abort`) and a line-delimited JSON-RPC protocol over stdio with 15 methods", "No telemetry or analytics calls were found in the source" ], "weaknesses": [ "Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration", "The default network mode `allow_audit` permits unrestricted networking, and no network audit log was found in the source", "The agent install prompt tells the agent it can star the repository through the user's authenticated GitHub CLI", "The only CI workflow builds release binaries and runs `--version` smoke checks on tags. The 288 test functions in the repository are not run in CI", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or disclosure policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Skip step 5 of install-prompt.txt. Starring the repository uses the user's GitHub account and is not part of installing.", "Pass `--commit` or `--abort` to `deltabox run` explicitly. The child's exit status is preserved after that decision.", "Wrap redirection and pipes in `sh -c '...'`. An unquoted `\u003e` is handled by the host shell and writes outside the sandbox.", "Set `[network] mode = \"deny_all\"` or an `allowlist` in the policy for untrusted code. The default allows every destination.", "Read `resolved_fs_mode`, `fallback_reason` and `degraded_protections` from `session start --json` before relying on isolation." ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 60, "reliability": 37, "schema": 68, "security": 47, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install --global deltabox-lite", "headless": { "abort": "deltabox run --abort -- sh -c 'printf \"sandboxed\\n\" \u003e\u003e notes.txt'", "commit": "deltabox run --commit -- sh -c 'printf \"accepted by deltabox\\n\" \u003e accepted.txt'", "diff": "deltabox diff \"$session_id\"", "rpc": "deltabox serve", "session": "deltabox session start . --json" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.fs", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deltabox-lite" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named in the repository, the licence or the npm records. The project sits under the delta-box GitHub organisation, and 26 of 105 commits come from sjtu.edu.cn addresses. The npm packages are published by the account xeonliu.", "The project has no website, terms or privacy policy. The README and the docs folder are the only documentation.", "The repository has no SECURITY.md, and there is no project domain to hold a security.txt.", "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.json", "live": { "slug": "deltabox-lite", "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/delta-box/deltabox-lite/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:09:46.794533554Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0d8c10328fc8" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:09:46.794533554Z" } }, "answer": "DeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "morph-cloud", "name": "Morph Cloud", "vendor": "Morph Labs", "vendorUrl": "https://cloud.morph.so", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Cloud virtual machines for AI agents from Morph Labs. Instances boot from snapshots and can be paused with memory intact, branched into copies, and driven through a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs and a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.json", "repo": "https://github.com/morph-labs/morph-python-sdk", "license": "Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cloud.morph.so/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "morphcloud" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "morphcloud" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key on https://cloud.morph.so/api, created in the dashboard at cloud.morph.so/web/keys after a browser signup. The SDKs and CLI read `MORPH_API_KEY`. Keys are bound to an organisation and can be listed and deleted through the API. An agent inside a devbox can use a devbox agent token limited to that devbox and to named scopes.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billed in Morph Compute Units. 1 MCU is 1 vCPU-hour with 4 GB RAM-hours and 16 GB disk-hours, or 5 TB snapshot-hours, at a stated standard rate of $0.05. The Free plan is $0 a month with 0 MCUs, so compute needs a purchase. Developer is $40 a month with 1,000 MCUs and Team is $250 a month with 7,500, with more billed as used (https://cloud.morph.so/web/pricing, checked 2026-10-08). No sandbox or free credit was found that lets an agent start without paying.", "priceSummary": "$0.05 / unit", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 339, "pypiWeekly": 13199, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloud.morph.so/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://cloud.morph.so/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://cloud.morph.so/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "cli", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.8, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 865, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 39, "transparency": 25 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Pause and snapshot keep memory and running processes, and one call branches an instance into several copies. A public OpenAPI file covers 69 operations. No terms of service, privacy policy or security page was found, the free plan includes no compute credit, and the changelog holds one entry from November 2024.", "bestFor": "Agents that need to checkpoint and fork a running machine with memory intact, for parallel attempts, evaluations or reinforcement learning rollouts.", "strengths": [ "Pause and snapshot preserve memory and running processes, and a paused instance is billed for its snapshot only", "Branch creates a snapshot and starts a chosen number of copies in one call", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file with 69 operations, plus llms.txt and llms-full.txt", "Devbox agent tokens are bound to one devbox and carry named scopes", "Status page shows 90 days without downtime to 8 October 2026 and no incident since 5 December 2025" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy, DPA or subprocessor list found on morph.so or cloud.morph.so", "The Free plan starts with 0 MCUs, so compute needs a purchase, and signup is in a browser", "No request rate limits, SLA or error-code reference in the reviewed documentation", "The changelog has one entry, the beta release of 19 November 2024", "The TypeScript SDK's last release is 0.0.20 of 6 October 2025", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found, and no isolation technology is named in the docs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `ttl_seconds` and `ttl_action` when starting an instance. Nothing in the docs stops an instance with no TTL from billing MCUs", "Pass `auth_mode: api_key` when exposing an HTTP service. The default is `none`, which makes the URL public", "Enable `wake_on_ssh` before calling exec on an instance that may be paused. There is no separate exec wake setting", "Use `/api/instance/list` and `/api/snapshot/list` with `page` and `limit` (default 50, maximum 1,000). The plain list routes return everything", "On a 503 from snapshot, branch, pause or reboot, wait for the `Retry-After` value before repeating the call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 39, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 35 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install morphcloud # or npm install morphcloud@0.0.20", "http": "curl -sS -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MORPH_API_KEY\" \\\n https://cloud.morph.so/api/snapshot/snapshot_your_snapshot_id" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/morph-cloud" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Morph Compute Unit", "unit": "compute-unit", "usd": 0.05, "note": "1 vCPU-hour with 4 GB RAM-hours and 16 GB disk-hours, or 5 TB snapshot-hours" }, { "item": "Instance compute", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Includes 4 GB RAM and 16 GB disk per vCPU. MCUs are the largest of the three ratios" }, { "item": "Developer plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 40, "note": "1,000 MCUs included" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 250, "note": "7,500 MCUs included" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "morph.so", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.morph.so", "changelog": "https://cloud.morph.so/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "No terms of service, service agreement or privacy policy was found. /terms and /privacy return 404 on cloud.morph.so and www.morph.so, and the morph.so site map lists only the home page, blog and careers, so both fields are left out.", "No registered legal entity was found. The SDK licence reads Copyright 2024 Morph Labs.", "The API answers at cloud.morph.so/api and exposed services at morphcloud.io addresses, per the docs.", "security.txt returns 404 on cloud.morph.so and www.morph.so.", "No RDAP service answers for the .so registry, so the registration date is blank.", "The status page's own data names Morph Labs, cloud.morph.so and support@morph.so. The page is not linked from the docs." ], "score": 35 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.json", "live": { "slug": "morph-cloud", "probe": { "target": "https://cloud.morph.so/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:48.043316557Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 154, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 144, "p95ms24h": 201, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 2319, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 70, "ok": 70 }, { "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.cloud.morph.so", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:23.643466803Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "morph-labs/morph-python-sdk", "version": "v0.1.115", "released": "2026-09-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:03:43.160284161Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "morphcloud", "version": "0.0.20", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:03:42.329791571Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "morphcloud", "version": "0.1.115", "released": "2026-09-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:03:42.147921737Z" } ], "githubStars": 3, "npmWeekly": 533, "pypiWeekly": 6452, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://morph.so/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:03.966797354Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://cloud.morph.so/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:22:40.772088546Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "morph.so", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:27:10.122302347Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cloud.morph.so/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:37.118548248Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a911488f7933" }, { "url": "https://cloud.morph.so/web/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:39.244157721Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4fc791aaa2ac" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:48.043316557Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "DeltaBox (delta-box)", "b": "Morph Labs", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://cloud.morph.so/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-14", "b": "2026-09-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3 stars, 339 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or Morph Cloud?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. Morph Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.morph.so/api.", "question": "Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and Morph Cloud without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "DeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Morph Cloud.", "question": "Are DeltaBox Lite and Morph Cloud open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 61", "Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 39", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 40 against 25" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "deltabox-lite", "watchFor": "Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 37", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 43" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need to checkpoint and fork a running machine with memory intact, for parallel attempts, evaluations or reinforcement learning rollouts.", "slug": "morph-cloud", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy, DPA or subprocessor list found on morph.so or cloud.morph.so" } ], "job": { "capability": "sandbox.fs", "name": "Sandbox fs" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-deltabox-lite.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs DeltaBox Lite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-deltabox-lite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-deltabox-lite.json", "title": "Blaxel Sandboxes vs DeltaBox Lite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-deltabox-lite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Blaxel Sandboxes vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-deltabox-lite.json", "title": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs DeltaBox Lite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-deltabox-lite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "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-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Daytona vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deno-sandbox-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Deno Sandbox vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deno-sandbox-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "E2B vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freestyle-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Freestyle vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freestyle-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-execution-containers-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Microsoft Execution Containers vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-execution-containers-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Modal Sandboxes vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-offscreen.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs Offscreen", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-offscreen" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-perplexity-space.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs SPACE", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-perplexity-space" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-runloop.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs Runloop Devboxes", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-runloop" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-sprites.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs Sprites", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-sprites" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs Together Code Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-together-code-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-vercel-sandbox.json", "title": "Morph Cloud vs Vercel Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-vercel-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-deltabox-lite.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs DeltaBox Lite", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-deltabox-lite" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-morph-cloud.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs Morph Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-morph-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-deno-sandbox.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Deno Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-deno-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs E2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-freestyle.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Freestyle", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-freestyle" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-microsoft-execution-containers.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Microsoft Execution Containers", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-microsoft-execution-containers" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-modal-sandboxes.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Modal Sandboxes", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-modal-sandboxes" }, { "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" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-perplexity-space.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs SPACE", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-perplexity-space" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Runloop Devboxes", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-sprites.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Sprites", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-sprites" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-together-code-sandbox.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Together Code Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-together-code-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-vercel-sandbox.json", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Vercel Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-vercel-sandbox" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 26, "deltabox-lite": 37, "edge": "morph-cloud", "key": "reliability", "morph-cloud": 63, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "deltabox-lite": 68, "edge": "morph-cloud", "key": "schema", "morph-cloud": 72, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "deltabox-lite": 67, "edge": "deltabox-lite", "key": "ergonomics", "morph-cloud": 61, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "deltabox-lite": 47, "edge": "deltabox-lite", "key": "security", "morph-cloud": 39, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "deltabox-lite": 60, "edge": "deltabox-lite", "key": "payments", "morph-cloud": 20, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "deltabox-lite": 43, "edge": "morph-cloud", "key": "maintenance", "morph-cloud": 58, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "deltabox-lite": 40, "edge": "deltabox-lite", "key": "transparency", "morph-cloud": 25, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do sandbox fs.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "deltabox-lite": "DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.", "morph-cloud": "Pause and snapshot keep memory and running processes, and one call branches an instance into several copies. A public OpenAPI file covers 69 operations. No terms of service, privacy policy or security page was found, the free plan includes no compute credit, and the changelog holds one entry from November 2024." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.min.md" }, "markdown": "DeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do sandbox fs.\n\n- DeltaBox Lite: grade D, 52.3/100, rank #825 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deltabox-lite.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.json\n- Morph Cloud: grade D, 50.8/100, rank #865 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.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### DeltaBox Lite (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 61\n- Security \u0026 auth, 47 against 39\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 40 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Version 0.1.1, first released on 14 October 2026, with two releases and no stability declaration\n\n### Morph Cloud (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that need to checkpoint and fork a running machine with memory intact, for parallel attempts, evaluations or reinforcement learning rollouts.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 37\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 43\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, DPA or subprocessor list found on morph.so or cloud.morph.so\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeltaBox Lite | Morph Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 63 | Morph Cloud +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 72 | Morph Cloud +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 61 | DeltaBox Lite +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 39 | DeltaBox Lite +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | DeltaBox Lite +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 58 | Morph Cloud +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 25 | DeltaBox Lite +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.3 · D** | **50.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeltaBox Lite | Morph Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | Morph Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://cloud.morph.so/api` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | none | 3 stars, 339 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeltaBox Lite.** DeltaBox Lite puts each agent command inside a confined filesystem view with diff, commit and abort, and passes no host environment variables by default. It is version 0.1.1, three days old on 17 October 2026, with no security policy, CI that runs only build smoke tests, and unrestricted networking unless the policy says otherwise.\n\n**Morph Cloud.** Pause and snapshot keep memory and running processes, and one call branches an instance into several copies. A public OpenAPI file covers 69 operations. No terms of service, privacy policy or security page was found, the free plan includes no compute credit, and the changelog holds one entry from November 2024.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeltaBox Lite\n\n1. Skip step 5 of install-prompt.txt. Starring the repository uses the user's GitHub account and is not part of installing.\n2. Pass `--commit` or `--abort` to `deltabox run` explicitly. The child's exit status is preserved after that decision.\n3. Wrap redirection and pipes in `sh -c '...'`. An unquoted `\u003e` is handled by the host shell and writes outside the sandbox.\n4. Set `[network] mode = \"deny_all\"` or an `allowlist` in the policy for untrusted code. The default allows every destination.\n5. Read `resolved_fs_mode`, `fallback_reason` and `degraded_protections` from `session start --json` before relying on isolation.\n\n### Morph Cloud\n\n1. Set `ttl_seconds` and `ttl_action` when starting an instance. Nothing in the docs stops an instance with no TTL from billing MCUs\n2. Pass `auth_mode: api_key` when exposing an HTTP service. The default is `none`, which makes the URL public\n3. Enable `wake_on_ssh` before calling exec on an instance that may be paused. There is no separate exec wake setting\n4. Use `/api/instance/list` and `/api/snapshot/list` with `page` and `limit` (default 50, maximum 1,000). The plain list routes return everything\n5. On a 503 from snapshot, branch, pause or reboot, wait for the `Retry-After` value before repeating the call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or Morph Cloud?\n\nDeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Morph Cloud leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and Morph Cloud without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. Morph Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.morph.so/api.\n\n### Are DeltaBox Lite and Morph Cloud open source?\n\nDeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Morph Cloud.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deltabox-lite\", \"b\": \"morph-cloud\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare deltabox-lite morph-cloud`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deltabox-lite.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.json\n\n## Other comparisons with DeltaBox Lite or Morph Cloud\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs DeltaBox Lite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-deltabox-lite.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-code-interpreter-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs DeltaBox Lite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-deltabox-lite.md)\n- [Blaxel Sandboxes vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blaxel-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs DeltaBox Lite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-deltabox-lite.md)\n- [Cloudflare Sandbox SDK vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudflare-sandbox-sdk-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Daytona vs DeltaBox Lite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-deltabox-lite.md)\n- [Daytona vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/daytona-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Deno Sandbox vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deno-sandbox-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [E2B vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/e2b-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Freestyle vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/freestyle-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Microsoft Execution Containers vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-execution-containers-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Modal Sandboxes vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-sandboxes-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs Offscreen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-offscreen.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs SPACE](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-perplexity-space.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-runloop.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs Sprites](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-sprites.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs Together Code Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-together-code-sandbox.md)\n- [Morph Cloud vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n- [Agent 37 Cloud vs DeltaBox Lite](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-deltabox-lite.md)\n- [Agent 37 Cloud vs Morph Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-morph-cloud.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Deno Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-deno-sandbox.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs E2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-e2b.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Freestyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-freestyle.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Microsoft Execution Containers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-microsoft-execution-containers.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Modal Sandboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-modal-sandboxes.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Offscreen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-offscreen.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs SPACE](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-perplexity-space.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Runloop Devboxes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Sprites](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-sprites.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Together Code Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-together-code-sandbox.md)\n- [DeltaBox Lite vs Vercel Sandbox](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-vercel-sandbox.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "attributionRequired": true, "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-18", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "DeltaBox Lite vs Morph Cloud", "url": "" } ], "description": "DeltaBox Lite scores 52.3 (D) to Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D) for sandbox fs. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.", "facts": [ "DeltaBox Lite D 52.3", "Morph Cloud D 50.8", "scores" ], "h1": "DeltaBox Lite vs Morph Cloud", "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/compare-deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud.png", "path": "/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud", "published": "2026-10-01", "section": "tools", "title": "DeltaBox Lite vs Morph Cloud for AI agents in 2026: scores and prices", "toc": null, "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-morph-cloud" }, "tokens": { "markdown": 2800, "slim": 630 }, "version": 1 }