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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": "Runloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "runloop", "name": "Runloop Devboxes", "vendor": "Runloop", "vendorUrl": "https://runloop.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "Devboxes, VM sandboxes for coding agents, with blueprints for prebuilt images, disk snapshots, suspend and resume, idle policies and a gateway that adds secret-backed headers to outbound API and MCP calls.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runloop.json", "repo": "https://github.com/runloopai/api-client-ts", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.runloop.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "runloop_api_client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@runloop/api-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key on api.runloop.ai. The SDKs read `RUNLOOP_API_KEY`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billed per second while a devbox is initialising, running, suspending or resuming. $0.108 a CPU-hour ($0.00003 a second), $0.0252 a GB-hour of memory, $0.00034236 a GB-hour of disk and $0.000072 a GB-hour of snapshot storage. Basic is free with 100 GB of storage and usage billing, Pro is $250 a month with 1 TB of storage, suspend and resume and repo connections, Enterprise adds VPC deployment. New accounts get a $50 credit without a card, limited to 3 running devboxes, 5 blueprints and 10 snapshots during the trial (https://runloop.ai/pricing). Suspended devboxes keep paying for storage (https://docs.runloop.ai/docs/devboxes/lifecycle).", "priceSummary": "$0.108 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 34, "npmWeekly": 23267, "pypiWeekly": 136023, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.runloop.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.runloop.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.runloop.ai/openapi-specs/stainless-processed-openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "no-card", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 374, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 85, "security": 60, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Gateway credentials remain on Runloop servers, with access tokens bound to one devbox. Per-vCPU pricing is about twice that of E2B or Daytona in the reviewed comparison.", "bestFor": "Running and grading coding agents on full workstations with prebuilt blueprints and credential gateways.", "strengths": [ "Agent gateways keep real credentials on Runloop's servers, with gateway tokens bound to one devbox", "Network policies that block egress or allow listed hostnames", "Public OpenAPI, llms.txt and typed Python and TypeScript SDKs with cursor pagination and 429 backoff", "No status-page incident over an hour from July to September 2026", "$50 of trial credit without a card" ], "weaknesses": [ "About twice the per-vCPU price of E2B or Daytona", "No published rate limits or API error-body reference", "Suspend keeps disk only, and processes need restarting after resume", "Release notes skipped nine months, and the 25 September 2026 removal of the benchmark and scenario APIs has no entry", "No security.txt, audit log or retention periods, and the terms carry no date" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set an idle policy (`idle_time_seconds` with `on_idle: suspend`) so a forgotten devbox stops billing compute", "Route outbound API calls through an agent gateway instead of putting keys in the devbox environment", "Attach a network policy with `allow_all=False` before running untrusted code. Egress is open by default", "Restart background services after every resume. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop.json", "live": { "slug": "runloop", "probe": { "target": "https://api.runloop.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:54.174590674Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 293, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 300, "p95ms24h": 350, "samples24h": 253, "samples30d": 4233, "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": 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": 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DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or Runloop Devboxes?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. Runloop Devboxes has a hosted endpoint at https://api.runloop.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and Runloop Devboxes without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "DeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Runloop Devboxes.", "question": "Are DeltaBox Lite and Runloop Devboxes open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "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, 60 against 37", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 68", "Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 47", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 43", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 49 against 40" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Running and grading coding agents on full workstations with prebuilt blueprints and credential gateways.", "slug": "runloop", "watchFor": 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Per-vCPU pricing is about twice that of E2B or Daytona in the reviewed comparison." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.min.md" }, "markdown": "Runloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing. 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- Runloop Devboxes: grade B, 64.8/100, rank #374 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runloop.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- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\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### Runloop Devboxes (B)\n\nGood for: Running and grading coding agents on full workstations with prebuilt blueprints and credential gateways.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 37\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 68\n- Security \u0026 auth, 60 against 47\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 43\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 49 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: About twice the per-vCPU price of E2B or Daytona\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeltaBox Lite | Runloop Devboxes | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 37 | 60 | Runloop Devboxes +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 85 | Runloop Devboxes +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 66 | DeltaBox Lite +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 60 | Runloop Devboxes +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 50 | DeltaBox Lite +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 83 | Runloop Devboxes +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 49 | Runloop Devboxes +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.3 · D** | **64.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeltaBox Lite | Runloop Devboxes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeltaBox (delta-box) | Runloop |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.runloop.ai` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-09-08 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 34 stars, 23k npm/wk, 136k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (2) |\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**Runloop Devboxes.** Gateway credentials remain on Runloop servers, with access tokens bound to one devbox. Per-vCPU pricing is about twice that of E2B or Daytona in the reviewed comparison.\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### Runloop Devboxes\n\n1. Set an idle policy (`idle_time_seconds` with `on_idle: suspend`) so a forgotten devbox stops billing compute\n2. Route outbound API calls through an agent gateway instead of putting keys in the devbox environment\n3. Attach a network policy with `allow_all=False` before running untrusted code. Egress is open by default\n4. Restart background services after every resume. Nothing in memory survives\n5. Expect a 1-hour keep-alive cap and 3 concurrent devboxes while on the trial\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeltaBox Lite or Runloop Devboxes?\n\nRunloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against DeltaBox Lite's 52.3 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeltaBox Lite leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call DeltaBox Lite and Runloop Devboxes without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for DeltaBox Lite. Runloop Devboxes has a hosted endpoint at https://api.runloop.ai.\n\n### Are DeltaBox Lite and Runloop Devboxes open source?\n\nDeltaBox Lite is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Runloop Devboxes.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deltabox-lite-vs-runloop.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deltabox-lite\", \"b\": \"runloop\"}`. 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