Daytona has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out. Sandboxes for running AI-generated code, priced pay as you go… Verified November 2026. Compare with 5 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: agent_sandbox — isolated execution environments provisioned programmatically for code an agent writes. 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.
Daytona has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out: Sandboxes for running AI-generated code, priced pay as you go… It's stable — zero pricing changes recorded. Best for ai / ml workloads — 5 alternatives available.
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.
We read that on 2026-11-12 from https://www.daytona.io/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Daytona as "daytona" and states "$0.0504" and "$0.0162" and "$200".
$200 in free compute included.
No recorded pricing changes for Daytona. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How Daytona compares against every one of the 5 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Daytona | Free Credits | stable |
| Modal | 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. |
caution |
| E2B | 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. |
stable |
| Blaxel | 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. |
stable |
| Runloop | 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. |
stable |
| Novita Sandbox | 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. |
stable |
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