froog vs Daytona
Daytona and froog both run sandboxes that can stay up indefinitely. Daytona's default sandbox is a container, with VM, GPU, Windows and macOS options. froog gives every agent a full VM, larger than Daytona's default Linux limit, for a fraction of the price.
froog and Daytona side by side
| froog | Daytona | |
|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Full KVM virtual machine, own kernel | Container by default (shares the host's kernel). Linux VM and Windows sandboxes with their own kernel |
| Largest sandbox | Up to 8 vCPU, 16 GB memory, 111 GB disk | Linux: 4 vCPU, 8 GiB memory, 10 GiB disk per sandbox by default (default size 1 vCPU, 1 GiB, 3 GiB). Windows up to 4 vCPU, 16 GiB, 50 GiB. GPU sandboxes larger. Higher limits on Enterprise |
| How long it runs | No limit: runs until you stop it, or until its auto-stop timer runs out (an hour by default, up to 30 days, or never) | Containers auto-stop after 15 minutes without outside activity by default (running processes don't count). VMs auto-pause after 60 minutes idle. Set 0 to run indefinitely. GPU sandboxes are deleted when stopped |
| Snapshots and forks | Hourly automatic snapshots, named snapshots as templates, fork into many copies, restore in place (disk). Warm resume with programs running for 10 min after a stop | Filesystem snapshots for every sandbox. Linux VM and Windows sandboxes add memory snapshots, pause and resume, and fork |
| Access | SSH, root (passwordless sudo), Docker, Chrome, a desktop in the browser (XFCE, Hyprland and Chromium on Omarchy), /dev/kvm, HTTPS URL for any port | SDKs and CLI, SSH with an access token, preview URLs for ports, a VNC desktop with computer use (Linux, Windows, macOS), /dev/kvm in Linux VMs once support enables it |
| GPUs | No | Yes, up to 8 per sandbox (NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, B300, L40S, RTX, AMD MI355X) |
| Price | $0.0274 an hour for 4 vCPU / 8 GB, billed per second while running | $0.0504 per vCPU-hour + $0.0162 per GiB-hour. Storage past 5 GiB $0.000108 per GiB-hour. $200 free credit |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB, all month | $20 | $242 |
Daytona figures are from its own pages, checked on November 12, 2026: daytona.io/pricing, daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes, daytona.io/docs/en/linux-sandboxes, daytona.io/docs/en/gpu-sandboxes, daytona.io/docs/en/vnc-access. The monthly line is 730 hours at list prices with the machine fully used, plan fees and credits not counted. Prices change. tell us if one is out of date. More providers on the pricing page.
When to pick which
Pick Daytona if
- You need GPUs, Windows or macOS sandboxes.
- You want memory snapshots, pause and resume, and forks of running VMs, or bring-your-own-cloud (Enterprise).
- You want container sandboxes that start from a Docker image in well under a second.
Pick froog if
- Bigger Linux machines: froog's large size is 8 vCPU, 16 GB and 111 GB of disk, twice the CPU and memory and eleven times the disk of Daytona's default per-sandbox limit.
- A full VM by default, with Docker, Chrome, a browser desktop and
/dev/kvmready at boot, and auto-stop on a timer you set rather than on idle detection. - Ten coding agents installed, run with one command:
froog prompt NAME "…" --agent claude. - Cost: $20 a month for a 4 vCPU / 8 GB VM running all month, against about $242.
Try froog in a minute
curl -fsSL https://froogcorp.com/install | sh
froog login
froog new my-box # ready when SSH works, about a minute
froog exec my-box -- uname -a
froog prompt my-box "write a hello world web server and run it on port 3000"
froog host my-box 3000 # an HTTPS URL for itQuestions
Is froog cheaper than Daytona?
Yes. Both bill per second, but froog's 4 vCPU / 8 GB size is $0.0274 an hour ($20 a full month) and the same machine at Daytona's list prices is about $0.33 an hour ($242 a month).
Are froog sandboxes containers or VMs?
VMs. Every froog sandbox is a full KVM virtual machine with its own kernel. Daytona's default sandboxes are containers that share the host's kernel, with Linux VM and Windows sandboxes as options.
How large can a froog sandbox be?
Up to 8 vCPU, 16 GB of memory and 111 GB of disk (the large size). Daytona's default limit per Linux sandbox is 4 vCPU, 8 GiB and 10 GiB of disk. Its Windows and GPU sandboxes go larger.
7 days free: 25 hours of running time, 2 sandboxes at once. Then from $0.0137 an hour, billed per second.