Daytona is a fast, feature-rich sandbox platform with an EU region. orkestr gives every sandbox its own VM, bills actual usage, and is an EU company end to end.
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| orkestr | Daytona | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Daytona Platforms Inc. (New York, US) |
| Where sandboxes run | EU only: Germany, Finland, France | US or EU shared regions; GPUs placed by Daytona |
| Isolation | A VM per sandbox, own kernel, on every tier | Linux containers by default, VMs optional |
| Billing basis | Actual on-CPU time and working-set RAM, per second | Allocated CPU, RAM and disk, per second |
| Rates | €0.045/vCPU-h, €0.015/GiB-h at full use | $0.0504/vCPU-h, $0.0162/GiB-h, disk after 5 GiB free |
| Plan fee | None, pay as you go | None; limits rise with prepaid top-ups |
| Free credit | €5 credit with no card, €25 with a card | $200, no card (not for GPUs) |
| Internet access | Off by default; open internet or a domain allowlist on every tier | Restricted on Tiers 1-2; full access from Tier 3 ($500 top-up) |
| Biggest sandbox | 4 vCPU / 8 GB | 4 vCPU / 8 GB, plus GPUs |
| Persistent volumes | Persistent volumes, up to 200 GB on pay as you go | S3-backed FUSE volumes, included |
| Snapshots | Pause/resume, 10 paused sandboxes kept 30 days | Stop, archive; pause and fork on VMs |
| SDKs and tools | Python, JS, REST, CLI, MCP | Python, TS, Ruby, Go, Java, CLI, MCP |
Daytona prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Daytona's docs say its sandboxes run as Linux containers by default, with dedicated VMs available. For a lot of workloads that is fine, and containers start fast. For running code an AI wrote, or code your customers uploaded, many security reviews want a kernel boundary.
On orkestr there is no tier to pick: every sandbox, free or paid, is its own virtual machine with its own kernel. The blast radius of anything inside is that one VM.
Daytona has a shared EU region, which keeps compute in Europe. The company is Daytona Platforms Inc. in New York, and its published sub-processor list puts billing, identity, analytics, email and support tools in the US.
orkestr is an EU company and every sub-processor we use is in the EU. That is usually the question a GDPR or procurement review actually asks.
One more practical difference: on Daytona the first two tiers have restricted network access, and full internet access starts at Tier 3, a $500 prepaid top-up. orkestr sandboxes start with no network, and open internet or a domain allowlist is one argument away on every tier, the free one included.
An AI agent product running 2,000 sandbox sessions a month, each 2 vCPU / 4 GB for 10 minutes (about 333 sandbox-hours), plus 20 GB of persistent storage, one developer.
Daytona in USD, orkestr in EUR, both excl. VAT. Daytona bills allocated resources, and a sandbox keeps billing until it is stopped (auto-stop defaults to 15 minutes of inactivity), so sessions not stopped explicitly cost more. orkestr's figure is a ceiling for sandboxes running flat out; idle time costs close to nothing. Daytona's $200 free credit covers several months of this workload.
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€5 of sandbox credit on sign-up, no credit card. Point the same agent at both and compare the bill.