# Freestyle vs SPACE (slim)

> Freestyle scores 58.5 (C) to SPACE's 56.2 (C) for code sandboxes. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Freestyle scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SPACE leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do code sandboxes.

- Freestyle: C 58.5, rank #616 of 1098 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.min.md
- SPACE: C 56.2, rank #683 of 1098 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.min.md
- 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 32; Schema & documentation, 86 against 75; Maintenance & community, 71 against 26. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- SPACE, good for Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest. Ahead on Security & auth, 64 against 53; Payments & pricing, 60 against 45; Transparency & trust, 68 against 41. Also Open source.

| Category | Freestyle | SPACE |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 32 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 86 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 26 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 41 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Freestyle | SPACE |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Freestyle Cloud Inc. | Perplexity |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.freestyle.sh/v5` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary service with no published terms of service found. The `freestyle` SDK and CLI package on npm is MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | none |
| Popularity | 72k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |