{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "perplexity-space", "name": "SPACE", "vendor": "Perplexity", "vendorUrl": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html", "kind": "http-api", "category": "code-sandboxes", "summary": "SPACE is Perplexity's open-source, self-hosted platform for running agent code in Firecracker microVMs. An operator deploys it on Linux with KVM, and applications drive sandboxes through its HTTP and SSE API or an E2B-compatible API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/perplexity-space.json", "repo": "https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Nothing to sign up for with Perplexity. On a deployment, the native API takes `Authorization: Bearer` with a token from a password login at `/auth/v1/sessions` or a service token, and users hold admin or member roles. Command streams on the data plane take a separate session-scoped token, valid for 5 minutes, that the API returns with each command. The E2B Compatibility Wrapper takes an E2B-style key in `X-API-Key`, which an operator creates with scripts/seed-api-key.sh and an SQL insert. SPACE stores only its SHA-256 hash. No key scopes or revocation call were found in the reviewed documentation.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy from Perplexity and no hosted SPACE service. The cost is the operator's own hosts, which need Linux x86_64 with KVM (bare-metal instances in Perplexity's reference EKS deployment), plus PostgreSQL and S3-compatible object storage, with Valkey in the reference EKS deployment (checked 2026-10-16).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs, the OpenAPI document or the source read on 16 October 2026. Self-hosted open-source software with no paid endpoint.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-16" }, "docsUrl": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html", "openapi": "https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.persist", "sandbox.fs" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "apache-2.0", "rust", "linux", "kubernetes", "microvm", "openapi", "e2b-compatible", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 683, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1098, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 26, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 75, "security": 64, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-16" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Once deployed, SPACE's native API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, stable error codes with a retryable flag and 24-hour idempotency keys, and egress and credential controls sit outside the VM. A person must first deploy it on a Linux x86_64 host with KVM and Kubernetes. Version 0.8.0 has no tagged release, changelog or public container images.", "bestFor": "Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 for 14 supported operations, served by each deployment at `/openapi-m1.json` and published on the docs site", "Errors carry a stable `code`, a `retryable` flag and a request ID, and lifecycle calls and command creation take a 24-hour `Idempotency-Key`", "Per-sandbox egress policies with allow and deny lists, operator egress profiles and TLS interception are enforced by a gateway outside the guest", "The network gateway can add secret headers from AWS Secrets Manager for an exact host and path, so the guest never holds the value", "An E2B Compatibility Wrapper lets the E2B Python SDK, tested at e2b 2.21.1, use a SPACE deployment as its backend" ], "weaknesses": [ "A person must deploy it first, on an apt-based Linux x86_64 host with KVM, privileged Docker and Kubernetes (Kind in the guide)", "Version 0.8.0 has no git tag, GitHub release or changelog, and CI pushes container images only to a private registry", "The `network_policy` and idle-lifecycle create fields are marked incubating, outside the supported contract, and typed as open objects", "Credential injection is off by default, needs AWS Secrets Manager, and has no page of its own in the user guide", "The wrapper rejects E2B's `mcp`, `volumeMounts` and `iam` options, team template names and pause without memory, and only Python is tested" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask your operator for the API base URL (before `/v1`, or `/api/v1` on shared hosts), the data-plane URL and a bearer token before planning any call", "Poll the returned operation until it succeeds and the sandbox is `running` before creating a command. A 202 response is not readiness", "Attach to the command's events URL with its session token to start the process, decode base64 output, and treat only `process_exited` as completion", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` on creates, lifecycle calls and commands, and retry only when `retryable` is true, after any `Retry-After`", "Save output as it arrives. Reconnecting with `Last-Event-ID` returns `resync_required`, not the missed output" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 26, "payments": 60, "reliability": 32, "schema": 75, "security": 64, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "git clone https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE.git \u0026\u0026 cd SPACE\nbash infra/space/kind/scripts/install-prereqs.sh\nexport SPACE_VENDOR_ROOT=\"$HOME/.local/share/space/vendor\"\nexport SPACE_KIND_CLUSTER=space-local\nbash infra/space/kind/scripts/install-fc-vendor.sh\nbash infra/space/kind/scripts/bootstrap.sh", "http": "curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $SPACE_API_TOKEN\" \\\n \"${SPACE_API_URL%/}/v1/sandboxes\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/sandbox.code", "tool": "https://letme.dev/perplexity-space" }, "sameCompany": [ "pplx-decider" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Perplexity AI", "domain": "perplexity.ai", "domainRegistered": "2022-07-08", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-16", "notes": [ "LICENSE reads 'Copyright 2026 Perplexity AI', and the repository's Claude Code plugin manifest names Perplexity AI as owner. No fuller legal entity name was found in the repository or the docs.", "The docs site is space.docs.perplexity.ai and the repository is under GitHub's perplexityai organisation. RDAP from Identity Digital gives perplexity.ai a registration date of 8 July 2022.", "No terms or privacy policy applies to the self-hosted software beyond the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no hosted SPACE endpoint, so no status page.", "No changelog or release notes. docs/versioning.md says the v0.8.0 tag should mark the tested commit, and the clone had no tags on 16 October 2026.", "https://www.perplexity.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/.well-known/security.txt both returned Contact security@perplexity.ai, Expires 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z and Policy https://www.perplexity.ai/security on 16 October 2026. The robots.txt of www.perplexity.ai allows that path.", "WebFetch refused the docs site as outside its allowed set, so the guide index, API index, openapi.json, build.json files and security.txt were read with curl. space.docs.perplexity.ai has no robots.txt (404). WebFetch refused github.com under its robots.txt, so stars, issues and CI results were not read." ], "score": 63 }, "requirements": { "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 120, "credential": "mixed", "hosting": [ "self-hosted" ], "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "no", "zeroRetention": "unknown", "selfHost": "yes" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.json" }, "answer": "Vercel Sandbox scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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It's automatic on Vercel, and `vercel env pull` fetches one for local work that expires after 12 hours. Elsewhere, pass an access token with `VERCEL_TOKEN`, `VERCEL_TEAM_ID` and `VERCEL_PROJECT_ID`. The REST API takes the access token as a Bearer header.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Hobby includes 5 hours of Active CPU, 420 GB-hours of memory, 5,000 sandbox creations, 20 GB of transfer and 15 GB of snapshot storage, after which creation pauses until the next cycle. Pro and Enterprise pay $0.128 an Active CPU hour, $0.0212 a GB-hour of provisioned memory, $0.60 per million creations, $0.08 a GB-month of snapshot storage and $0.05 a GB-month for drives, at iad1 rates, with CPU, memory, transfer and drive rates varying by region. Pro usage draws first on the plan's $20 monthly credit. Downloads into a sandbox are free, while outbound traffic and exposed ports are billed (https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.128 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 168, "npmWeekly": 6482660, "pypiWeekly": 461527, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox", "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "sandbox.code", "sandbox.fs", "sandbox.persist" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "typescript", "python", "llms-txt", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 187, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1098, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 77, "security": 80, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Active CPU billing, so waiting on model responses costs only memory. Tied to a Vercel team and project even when called from elsewhere, and access tokens reach the whole team.", "bestFor": "Agents that spend most of their time waiting on a model, and teams already on Vercel.", "strengths": [ "Active CPU billing, so waiting on model responses costs only memory", "Credential brokering proxy outside the sandbox that overwrites headers set by sandbox code", "Firecracker microVM with root access, and a firewall with deny-all, domain and CIDR rules", "Persistent by default, with automatic snapshots and resume on the next SDK call", "Sandbox has its own status-page component, and the feed shows only degradations from July to September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Tied to a Vercel team and project even when called from elsewhere, and access tokens reach the whole team", "Hobby caps sessions at 45 minutes and pauses creation once the monthly allowance is spent", "Snapshots keep the filesystem, not memory or running processes", "Egress is allow-all until you set a policy", "No MCP server for Sandbox and no public OpenAPI for its endpoints found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `sandbox.stop()` when the task is done. 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SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, SPACE or Vercel Sandbox?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do SPACE and Vercel Sandbox need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for SPACE. Vercel Sandbox has a hosted endpoint at https://api.vercel.com/v1/sandboxes.", "question": "Can an agent call SPACE and Vercel Sandbox without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "SPACE is open source (Apache-2.0). 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/together-code-sandbox-vs-vercel-sandbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-perplexity-space.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs SPACE", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-perplexity-space" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-vercel-sandbox.json", "title": "Agent 37 Cloud vs Vercel Sandbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent37-vs-vercel-sandbox" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 38, "edge": "vercel-sandbox", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "perplexity-space": 32, "vercel-sandbox": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "vercel-sandbox", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "perplexity-space": 75, "vercel-sandbox": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "perplexity-space", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "perplexity-space": 66, "vercel-sandbox": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "vercel-sandbox", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "perplexity-space": 64, "vercel-sandbox": 80, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "perplexity-space", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "perplexity-space": 60, "vercel-sandbox": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 54, "edge": "vercel-sandbox", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "perplexity-space": 26, "vercel-sandbox": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "vercel-sandbox", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "perplexity-space": 68, "vercel-sandbox": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Vercel Sandbox scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/perplexity-space.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/perplexity-space.json\n- Vercel Sandbox: grade B, 69.6/100, rank #187 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-sandbox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-sandbox.json\n- Best code execution sandboxes for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/code-sandboxes/index.md\n- All 120 sandboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/code-sandboxes/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### SPACE (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want E2B-style microVM sandboxes on their own Linux and Kubernetes hosts, with egress and credential control outside the guest.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: A person must deploy it first, on an apt-based Linux x86_64 host with KVM, privileged Docker and Kubernetes (Kind in the guide)\n\n### Vercel Sandbox (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that spend most of their time waiting on a model, and teams already on Vercel.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 32\n- Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 64\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 26\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 68\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Tied to a Vercel team and project even when called from elsewhere, and access tokens reach the whole team\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | SPACE | Vercel Sandbox | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 32 | 70 | Vercel Sandbox +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 77 | Vercel Sandbox +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 65 | SPACE +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 80 | Vercel Sandbox +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | SPACE +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 26 | 80 | Vercel Sandbox +54 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 75 | Vercel Sandbox +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.2 · C** | **69.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | SPACE | Vercel Sandbox |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Perplexity | Vercel |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.vercel.com/v1/sandboxes` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-11 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 168 stars, 6.5M npm/wk, 462k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**SPACE.** Once deployed, SPACE's native API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract, stable error codes with a retryable flag and 24-hour idempotency keys, and egress and credential controls sit outside the VM. A person must first deploy it on a Linux x86_64 host with KVM and Kubernetes. Version 0.8.0 has no tagged release, changelog or public container images.\n\n**Vercel Sandbox.** Active CPU billing, so waiting on model responses costs only memory. Tied to a Vercel team and project even when called from elsewhere, and access tokens reach the whole team.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### SPACE\n\n1. Ask your operator for the API base URL (before `/v1`, or `/api/v1` on shared hosts), the data-plane URL and a bearer token before planning any call\n2. Poll the returned operation until it succeeds and the sandbox is `running` before creating a command. A 202 response is not readiness\n3. Attach to the command's events URL with its session token to start the process, decode base64 output, and treat only `process_exited` as completion\n4. Send an `Idempotency-Key` on creates, lifecycle calls and commands, and retry only when `retryable` is true, after any `Retry-After`\n5. Save output as it arrives. Reconnecting with `Last-Event-ID` returns `resync_required`, not the missed output\n\n### Vercel Sandbox\n\n1. Call `sandbox.stop()` when the task is done. Memory bills until the session ends\n2. Use `Sandbox.getOrCreate` with a name so retries land in the same sandbox\n3. Set `networkPolicy` to `deny-all` for untrusted code. The default is allow-all\n4. Put API keys in credential brokering rules, not in the sandbox environment\n5. Pass `persistent: false` for one-off runs so no snapshot is stored or billed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, SPACE or Vercel Sandbox?\n\nVercel Sandbox scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against SPACE's 56.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. SPACE leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do SPACE and Vercel Sandbox need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call SPACE and Vercel Sandbox without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for SPACE. Vercel Sandbox has a hosted endpoint at https://api.vercel.com/v1/sandboxes.\n\n### Are SPACE and Vercel Sandbox open source?\n\nSPACE is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Vercel Sandbox.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/perplexity-space-vs-vercel-sandbox.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/perplexity-space-vs-vercel-sandbox.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"perplexity-space\", \"b\": \"vercel-sandbox\"}`. 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