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Sub-90ms sandboxes for AI-generated code. $200 free, no card.

Codeest. 2023 · San Francisco, CA
93
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
$200 one-time credits · no card
Category
Code
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
just now

// Free tier details

Available Models

Any — runs your agent's code

Monthly Requests

$200 one-time credits

Rate Limit

First 5 GiB storage free

No credit card needed
No phone verification

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">from daytona 300">"text-purple-400">import Daytona

client = Daytona()  3 italic"># uses DAYTONA_API_KEY env var

sandbox = client.create()
response = sandbox.process.code_run(300">"print('hello 400300">">from daytona')")
print(response.result)

// Overview

Daytona provides fast, isolated infrastructure for safely executing AI-generated code, with sandbox creation in under 90ms. The free trial includes $200 in compute credits with no credit card required, plus the first 5 GiB of storage free.

// Pros

  • $200 free credits — most generous in its class, no credit card
  • Sub-90ms sandbox creation
  • Open source
  • First 5 GiB storage free

// Cons

  • Credits are one-time, not recurring
  • Newer platform — smaller community
  • Usage-based pricing after credits

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from just now health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)100/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)80/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)81/100

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// Best for

Fast AI code executionAgent sandboxes at scaleCI/CD for AI-generated code

// Recent changes

Jun 15, 2026Added to APIVault — $200 free credits, no CCadded