# Morph Cloud vs Runloop Devboxes

> Runloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sandbox code. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Runloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do sandbox code.

- Morph Cloud: grade D, 50.8/100, rank #515 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/morph-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.json
- Runloop Devboxes: grade B, 64.8/100, rank #245 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runloop.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runloop.json

## Which one, for what

### Morph Cloud (D)

Good for: Agents that need to checkpoint and fork a running machine with memory intact, for parallel attempts, evaluations or reinforcement learning rollouts.

Watch for: No terms of service, privacy policy, DPA or subprocessor list found on morph.so or cloud.morph.so

### Runloop Devboxes (B)

Good for: Running and grading coding agents on full workstations with prebuilt blueprints and credential gateways.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 72
- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 61
- Security & auth, 60 against 39
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 58
- Transparency & trust, 49 against 25

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: About twice the per-vCPU price of E2B or Daytona


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Morph Cloud | Runloop Devboxes | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 60 | Morph Cloud +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 85 | Runloop Devboxes +13 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 66 | Runloop Devboxes +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 39 | 60 | Runloop Devboxes +21 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 50 | Runloop Devboxes +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 83 | Runloop Devboxes +25 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 49 | Runloop Devboxes +24 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **50.8 · D** | **64.8 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Morph Cloud | Runloop Devboxes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Morph Labs | Runloop |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.morph.so/api` | `https://api.runloop.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service with no published terms found. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 3 stars, 339 npm/wk, 13k PyPI/wk | 34 stars, 23k npm/wk, 136k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**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.

## Before you call either

### Morph Cloud

1. Set `ttl_seconds` and `ttl_action` when starting an instance. Nothing in the docs stops an instance with no TTL from billing MCUs
2. Pass `auth_mode: api_key` when exposing an HTTP service. The default is `none`, which makes the URL public
3. Enable `wake_on_ssh` before calling exec on an instance that may be paused. There is no separate exec wake setting
4. Use `/api/instance/list` and `/api/snapshot/list` with `page` and `limit` (default 50, maximum 1,000). The plain list routes return everything
5. On a 503 from snapshot, branch, pause or reboot, wait for the `Retry-After` value before repeating the call

### Runloop Devboxes

1. Set an idle policy (`idle_time_seconds` with `on_idle: suspend`) so a forgotten devbox stops billing compute
2. Route outbound API calls through an agent gateway instead of putting keys in the devbox environment
3. Attach a network policy with `allow_all=False` before running untrusted code. Egress is open by default
4. Restart background services after every resume. Nothing in memory survives
5. Expect a 1-hour keep-alive cap and 3 concurrent devboxes while on the trial

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Morph Cloud or Runloop Devboxes?

Runloop Devboxes scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Morph Cloud's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Do Morph Cloud and Runloop Devboxes need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Morph Cloud and Runloop Devboxes without installing anything?

Yes. Morph Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.morph.so/api and Runloop Devboxes at https://api.runloop.ai.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-runloop.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/morph-cloud-vs-runloop.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "morph-cloud", "b": "runloop"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare morph-cloud runloop`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/morph-cloud.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runloop.json

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