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Vercel Sandbox vs Daytona

Vercel Sandbox is Firecracker microVMs billed by active CPU. Daytona is containers by default with VM, Windows, macOS and GPU options.

Facts checked 17 October 2026. Prices and limits move. Read the citations.

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The short answer

Pick Vercel Sandbox for microVMs, Active CPU billing and many regions. Pick Daytona for operating system and GPU breadth and your own runners.

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The useful distinction

Vercel Sandbox: an SDK, CLI and API for on-demand Firecracker microVMs that run untrusted or agent-generated code. You bring the agent and the workflow. Generally available since 30 January 2026.

Daytona: Elastic sandboxes for AI-generated code: Linux containers by default, with VM, Windows, macOS and GPU options, SDKs in five languages, an MCP server and BYOC.

Head to head

Buyer questions

QuestionVercel SandboxDaytona
What runsNone built in. The default image includes Node.js, Python and coding agents; you start and drive them.None built in. You bring the agent, or drive sandboxes from Claude, Cursor or Windsurf through Daytona's MCP server.
IsolationFirecracker microVM with its own filesystem and network. Sandboxes save state on stop by default. Sessions run 45 minutes on Hobby and 24 hours on Pro; default timeout is 5 minutes.Linux containers by default, each with its own kernel, filesystem and network stack; dedicated VMs are opt-in. Container sandboxes keep the filesystem on stop but not memory, and auto-stop after 15 idle minutes.
Result and pull requestLeft to you. You get exec, files and logs; the pull request is your code.Left to you. The git API clones, branches, commits and pushes; opening the pull request is your code.
MCPVercel's remote MCP server has tools to create sandboxes, run commands, read and write files and set network policy.An MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Windsurf create sandboxes, run code, use git and preview ports.
TeamScoped to a Vercel team and project, with OIDC auth and a dashboard to manage sandboxes.Organizations and SSO. Enterprise adds audit logs and BYOC. No task view or Slack and Linear surface.
Starting priceHobby free with 5 Active CPU hours / month; Pro draws from the $20 / month credit$200 of free compute, then pay as you go with no monthly fee
Where it taps out5-minute default timeout. 24-hour session cap on Pro, 45 minutes on Hobby. A Pro sandbox tops out at 8 vCPU and 16 GB. Hobby creation pauses once quota is used.Default runtime is a container, and container sandboxes cannot pause memory. The 15-minute auto-stop does not count a running process as activity. The open-source repository stopped receiving updates in June 2026.

Decision

When each side wins

Vercel Sandbox wins when

  • You want Active CPU billing: time waiting on I/O and model calls is not charged.
  • You need 19 regions, static egress IPs and VPC peering through Secure Compute.
  • You want up to 10,000 concurrent sandboxes on Pro and custom OCI images.

Daytona wins when

  • You need Windows, macOS or GPU sandboxes as well as Linux, from one SDK.
  • You want BYOC: your own runner nodes managed by Daytona's control plane.
  • You want SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go and Java, and an MCP server your IDE agent can drive.

Rush

Where Rush sits

Rush is the layer neither sells: the agent, the pull request and the record of the run, started by one request.

Honest limits

Skip Rush if

  • Rush runs three agents: Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode. It does not host an agent you wrote yourself.
  • Repositories come through the Rush GitHub App. A GitLab or Bitbucket repository cannot be a run's repository yet.
  • There is no self-hosted or customer-VPC deployment, and we do not publish a compliance report today.
  • Compute is metered. Free includes 5 agent-hours a month and Pro 40, each with a weekly ceiling.
  • You review the pull request. Rush does not merge for you.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

Is Vercel Sandbox cheaper than Daytona?

List prices, read off each vendor's pricing page on 17 October 2026. Vercel Sandbox: Hobby free with 5 Active CPU hours / month; Pro draws from the $20 / month credit. Daytona: $200 of free compute, then pay as you go with no monthly fee. The units differ, so price the job you run, not the plan.

Where does Rush fit next to Vercel Sandbox and Daytona?

Rush is the layer neither sells: the agent, the pull request and the record of the run, started by one request.

Cluster

Keep reading

Citations

Sources

Every factual claim on this page traces to one of these URLs. Retrieval date is 17 October 2026 unless the source prints an earlier published date.

  1. [1] Vercel, “Vercel Sandbox”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox
  2. [2] Vercel, “Vercel Sandbox pricing and quotas”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox/pricing
  3. [3] Vercel, “Run untrusted code with Vercel Sandbox, now generally available”, published 2026-01-30. https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-sandbox-is-now-generally-available
  4. [4] Vercel, “Vercel Sandbox vs E2B”, published 2026-03-20. https://vercel.com/kb/guide/vercel-sandbox-vs-e2b
  5. [5] Vercel, “Sandboxes (Vercel MCP tools)”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-mcp/tools/sandboxes
  6. [6] Daytona, “Daytona - Secure Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code (pricing)”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://www.daytona.io/pricing
  7. [7] Daytona, “Sandboxes | Daytona”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes
  8. [8] Daytona, “Daytona MCP Server | Daytona”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/mcp
  9. [9] Daytona, “Git Operations | Daytona”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/git-operations
  10. [10] Daytona, “Bring Your Own Compute (BYOC) | Daytona”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/bring-your-own-compute
  11. [11] Daytona, “daytonaio/daytona (GitHub README)”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona
  12. [12] Rush, “Rush product requirements”, retrieved 2026-09-15. https://getrush.ai/cloud
  13. [13] Rush, “Rush pricing (live contract on getrush.ai)”, retrieved 2026-09-15. https://getrush.ai/pricing
  14. [14] Rush, “Isolation, plainly”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://getrush.ai/docs/concepts/isolation
  15. [15] Rush, “Results and proof”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://getrush.ai/docs/concepts/results-and-proof
  16. [16] Rush, “Usage and billing”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://getrush.ai/docs/concepts/usage-and-billing
  17. [17] Rush, “Rush MCP server”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://getrush.ai/docs/concepts/mcp-server
  18. [18] Rush, “Automations”, retrieved 2026-10-17. https://getrush.ai/docs/concepts/automations

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