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Daytona vs E2B

Daytona runs sandboxes for AI-generated code with a dedicated kernel, filesystem and network per sandbox, plus Linux VM, Windows and GPU options. Built for agent platforms that need fast creation and long-lived sandboxes. A 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox lists at $0.166 an hour on Daytona, exactly E2B's $0.166.

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E2B baseline sources
Field -E2B (baseline) +Daytona Change
2 vCPU + 4 GiB, per hour $0.166 (source: E2B Pricing) $0.166 (source: Daytona Pricing) same
vCPU, per hour $0.0504 (source: E2B Pricing) $0.0504 (source: Daytona Pricing) same
Memory, per GiB-hour $0.0162 (source: E2B Pricing) $0.0162 (source: Daytona Pricing) same
Billed on wall clock (source: E2B Pricing) wall clock (source: Daytona Pricing) same
Isolation Firecracker microVM (source: E2B homepage) container (source: Daytona Sandboxes docs) differs
Cold start not published 90 ms (source: Daytona homepage) E2B: no figure
Max session 1 h (Hobby), 24 h (Pro) (source: E2B Pricing) not published Daytona: no figure
Persistence state kept, pause/resume, memory kept, fork (source: E2B homepage) state kept, pause/resume, memory kept, fork (source: Daytona Pricing) same
Self-host Yes, Apache-2.0 (source: E2B runtime (GitHub)) not published Daytona: no figure
Your own cloud (BYOC) Yes (source: E2B homepage) Yes (source: Daytona homepage) same
GPU No (source: E2B Pricing) Yes (source: Daytona Sandboxes docs) differs
SDKs Python, JavaScript/TypeScript (source: E2B Pricing) Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java (source: Daytona Pricing) differs
SOC 2 Type II (source: E2B homepage) Type II (source: Daytona Trust Center) same
Free tier Hobby: $0 plan fee, one-time $100 usage credit, 10 concurrent sandboxes, 1-hour sessions. (source: E2B Pricing) $200 free compute on pay-as-you-go; startups up to $50k credits. (source: Daytona Pricing) differs

Prices are list prices for one hour of a 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox: 2 × the vCPU rate + 4 × the memory rate. Each value links to the page it came from; not published means the vendor states no figure. How we compare.

Pick Daytona instead of E2B when

  • you need GPUs: Daytona documents GPU sandboxes, and E2B lists CPU-only sandboxes.
  • you want a published start time: Daytona states 90 ms (a vendor claim), and E2B publishes no figure.
  • you are prototyping: $200 free compute on pay-as-you-go; startups up to $50k credits.

Stay on E2B when

  • you run model-written code you do not control and want a dedicated kernel per sandbox: E2B uses Firecracker microVMs, Daytona uses container.
  • you want managed cloud, your own cloud account and self-hosting from one vendor: E2B offers all three, with BYOC on its Enterprise plan, and Daytona offers one of them.

All Daytona facts

Source per value
Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.
container 2
Other isolation options Alternative runtimes the vendor offers besides the default (e.g. VM runtime, gVisor for GPU).
Linux VM (pause/resume, memory snapshots, fork), Windows, macOS and GPU sandboxes 2
Deployment Managed cloud service, self-hosted software, or both.
managed 1
Billing basis What the meter counts: wall-clock allocated resources, active CPU only, requests/plan quota, session-hours, or free software.
wall clock 1
vCPU price $/vCPU-hr Published on-demand CPU rate normalised to USD per vCPU-hour (per-second rates multiplied by 3,600; per-core rates divided by vCPUs per core where the vendor defines it). Lowest public tier, default region. 0 means the vendor states no separate CPU charge.
$0.0504 1
Memory price $/GiB-hr Published memory rate normalised to USD per GiB-hour (GB treated as GiB where the vendor does not distinguish). 0 means the vendor states memory is free.
$0.0162 1
Sandbox from $/sandbox-hr Smallest published per-sandbox hourly price, where the vendor publishes one.
Not published
Paid plan from $/mo Cheapest paid platform plan fee (before usage).
Not published
Free tier A free plan, free monthly allowance or sign-up credit exists.
Yes 1
Free tier detail What the free tier or credit includes, as published.
$200 free compute on pay-as-you-go; startups up to $50k credits. 1
Cold start ms Vendor-published create/boot time in milliseconds (a vendor claim, not our benchmark). Only filled when the vendor publishes a number; see startup_claim for percentile and conditions.
90 4
Resume time ms Vendor-published resume-from-pause/standby/snapshot time in milliseconds.
Not published
Startup claim The vendor's startup/resume wording with conditions, quoted or closely paraphrased.
"Sub 90ms sandbox creation from code to execution" 4
Max session length Longest single sandbox session by plan, as published.
Not published
Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).
Yes 1
Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.
Yes 2
Memory state kept Pause/hibernate preserves running memory state, not only the filesystem.
Yes 2
Fork / branch A running or snapshotted sandbox can be cloned into new sandboxes.
Yes 2
GPU GPU sandboxes are offered.
Yes 2
Self-host Can run on your own hardware or cluster (open source or licensed).
Not published
BYOC / VPC Vendor-managed deployment inside your own cloud account.
Yes 4
Open source Core sandbox runtime is published under an open-source licence.
Not published
Licence Open-source licence of the runtime, if any.
Not published
SDKs / languages Official SDK languages (or supported execution languages where noted).
Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java 1
Regions Published regions or region count.
US East, US West, EU Central (Frankfurt), EU West (London), India; GPU in a shared region 4
Max vCPU per sandbox vCPU Largest published vCPU count per sandbox on any self-serve or enterprise plan.
4 2
Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.
8 2
Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.
Not published
SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.
Type II 5
HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).
Yes 5
2 vCPU + 4 GiB per hour $/hr Hourly list price of one 2 vCPU / 4 GiB sandbox: 2 x the vCPU rate + 4 x the memory rate, from the two published rates. Left empty for self-hosted software and for vendors without both rates. Vendors that bill CPU only while busy (Vercel, Cloudflare, Upstash, Tensorlake, AWS AgentCore) cost less for idle agents than this shows.
$0.1656 1
Price vs E2B x E2B The 2 vCPU + 4 GiB hourly price divided by E2B's own ($0.1656 at $0.000014/vCPU-s and $0.0000045/GiB-s). Under 1 is cheaper than E2B.
1 1
Status Preview, experimental, beta, sunset or self-hosting caveats the vendor documents.
Not published
Pricing model
usage
From
$0.0504 vCPU-hour
Pricing note
$0.0504/vCPU-h, $0.0162/GiB-h, storage $0.000108/GiB-h after 5 GiB free, Windows $0.0858/vCPU-h, GPUs from $0.57/h (RTX 4090, preemptible). Standard sandboxes go up to 4 vCPU / 8 GB; each GPU adds up to 16 vCPU and 192 GB. Pricing checked 2026-11-09.

Sources

  1. Daytona Pricing accessed 2026-11-09
  2. Daytona Sandboxes docs accessed 2026-11-09
  3. Daytona (GitHub, archived) accessed 2026-11-09
  4. Daytona homepage accessed 2026-11-09
  5. Daytona Trust Center accessed 2026-11-09

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