Every free agent sandbox tier that clears our bar in 2026: 3 offers meet the criteria and 5 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: isolated execution environments provisioned programmatically, sold for AI agent workloads. We could not confirm today's terms for 2 of them, and on all 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Agent Sandbox Tools

Every free agent sandbox tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30. Our membership test: isolated execution environments provisioned programmatically, sold for AI agent workloads.

3 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 83 ai / ml offers → See all 61 cloud hosting offers →
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Modal stable
Free

Serverless platform for running CPU and GPU workloads. The Starter plan has no monthly fee and includes $30 of compute per month (GPU, CPU and memory), 3 workspace seats, 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency. Usage beyond the $30 is billed per second: T4 $0.000164 per second; H100 $0.001097 per second. Since 2026-09-01, Shared Endpoints are billed per token from the first request and are not covered by the $30. Team is $250 per month with $100 of compute included.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://modal.com/pricing, where it says: “Modal Sandbox + Notebooks Pricing”. How we use this

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Hobby

Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted or agent-generated code, metered by active CPU, memory, sandbox creations and data transfer. The Hobby plan includes each month at no cost: 5 hours of Active CPU, 420 GB-hours of provisioned memory, 5,000 sandbox creations and 20 GB of data transfer, plus 15 GB of snapshot storage for the life of the account. Hobby sandboxes run for at most 45 minutes, 10 at a time. Past the quota, sandbox creation pauses and nothing is charged. Hobby is for non-commercial, personal use only. On Pro, Active CPU costs $0.128 an hour and memory $0.0212 per GB-hour. Best for personal projects.

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-27 from https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox, where it says: “Run untrusted or agent-generated code in isolated Linux microVMs.”. How we use this

3
Free

Free tier with $5.40/mo usage credit. No card. Note — discovered 2026-08-28: The free tier now includes a $5.40/mo usage credit instead of a fixed amount of bandwidth and build minutes. Source ↗

Listed in Cloud Hosting, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://www.pandastack.io/, where it says: “Firecracker microVMs that boot in 49ms. Agent sandboxes with fork & snapshot, git-driven app hosting, dedicated Postgres 16 and serverless functions on one open-source substrate.”. How we use this

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

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Free Credits

Sandboxes for AI agents from Novita AI, billed per second for CPU and RAM while a sandbox runs. New users who complete an account setup survey get $100 in promotional credits for Novita Sandbox usage, with no credit card; the credits expire, and Novita does not state after how long. The free tier allows 5 concurrent sandboxes of up to 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM, each running for at most 1 hour. Paid usage costs $0.0000098 per vCPU-second and $0.0000032 per GiB-second.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-27 from https://docs.novita.ai/guides/sandbox-pricing, where it says: “Novita Sandbox is billed per second for CPU and RAM while a sandbox is running.”. How we use this

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
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E2B stable
Free Credits

Cloud sandboxes for AI agents: isolated Linux machines that run generated code and shell commands, work with files and reach the internet. The Hobby plan has no monthly fee and a one-time $100 usage credit, with no credit card needed to start. When the credit runs out, the account is blocked until a payment method is added. Hobby allows 20 concurrent sandboxes and up to 1 hour of continuous runtime per sandbox. Running sandboxes are billed per second for CPU and RAM. Pro is $150/month plus usage. Best for personal projects.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://e2b.dev/pricing, where it says: “We charge per second of a running sandbox”. How we use this

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
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Daytona stable
Free Credits

Sandboxes for running AI-generated code, priced pay as you go. New accounts get $200 in free compute on a free trial that needs no credit card; Daytona does not say whether the credit expires or renews, and it does not cover GPU sandboxes. A sandbox can use up to 4 vCPUs, 8 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, and on the first two usage tiers its network access is restricted. After the credit: $0.0504 an hour per vCPU and $0.0162 an hour per GiB of memory; the first 5 GiB of storage is free.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-27 from https://www.daytona.io/pricing, where it says: “Daytona lets you spin up sandboxes in milliseconds and shut them down just as fast.”. How we use this

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
−2
Blaxel stable
Free Credits

Sandboxes and runtime for AI agents, priced on usage with no plan fee. New accounts get up to $200 in free credits; Blaxel does not say whether they renew, and its terms say unused service credits expire one year after they are issued unless otherwise specified. The free quota tier allows 10 sandboxes, which it deletes after at most 7 days, and free accounts cannot request higher quotas. A running sandbox costs $0.0000115 per GB of RAM per second; idle time is not billed as active CPU.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-27 from https://blaxel.ai/pricing, where it says: “Up to $200 in free credits. Spin up your first sandbox in under a second.”. How we use this

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
−2
Runloop stable
Free Credits

Devboxes: secure micro-VM environments for building and running AI agents. New accounts get $50 in usage credits with Pro features and no credit card; usage draws the credit down until it is gone, and nothing is charged automatically when it ends. On the trial: 3 running devboxes, sizes up to Medium (2 CPUs, 4 GB), and at most 1 hour of keep-alive. After the credit, the Basic plan is a free subscription with usage billed at $0.108 per CPU-hour and $0.0252 per GB-hour of memory. Pro is $250 a month plus usage.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it agent_sandbox. We read that on 2026-09-27 from https://runloop.ai/pricing, where it says: “Secure micro-VM environments to build and run AI agents at speed”. How we use this

  • −2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.

Not on our ranked list

2 of the 10 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 2 are not free offers. Here is how that order is derived.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:agent_sandbox
seed
dbe465f54d660f5f39d3ded092f5ae1c553d9c6e1c7b26834f13899896be503d
tie_count
3

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Modal Free Serverless platform for running CPU and GPU workloads. The Starter plan has no monthly fee and includes $30 of compute p... stable 2026-09-22
Vercel Sandbox Hobby Isolated Linux microVMs for running untrusted or agent-generated code, metered by active CPU, memory, sandbox creations ... stable 2026-09-27
PandaStack Free Free tier with $5.40/mo usage credit. No card.
read found the page different · 2026-09-11
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discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown
2026-09-11 / 2026-07-15

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free agent sandbox tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 3 free agent sandbox offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free agent sandbox tiers have held their terms?

3 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and 1 a recorded narrowing. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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