# Freestyle vs Sprites (slim)

> Freestyle and Sprites score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 58.5 (C) and 58.3 (C). Sprites leads on reliability, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do sandbox code. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by…

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Freestyle and Sprites score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 58.5 (C) and 58.3 (C). Sprites leads on reliability, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do sandbox code.

- Freestyle: C 58.5, rank #520 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/freestyle.min.md
- Sprites: C 58.3, rank #528 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sprites.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 Schema & documentation, 86 against 74; Payments & pricing, 45 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; 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 Reliability, 55 against 43; Security & auth, 59 against 53; Maintenance & community, 80 against 71; Transparency & trust, 59 against 41.

| Category | Freestyle | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 86 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 71 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 41 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Freestyle | Sprites |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Freestyle Cloud Inc. | Fly.io |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.freestyle.sh/v5` | no (local only) |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service with no published terms of service found. The `freestyle` SDK and CLI package on npm is MIT | 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 | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-04-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 72k npm/wk | 158k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |