froog vs Daytona

Q: 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 limit per sandbox is 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 10 GB of disk.

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 maximum, for a fraction of the price.

froog and Daytona side by side

	froog	Daytona
Isolation	Full KVM virtual machine, own kernel	Container by default (own namespaces, root); VM sandboxes with their own kernel
Largest sandbox	Up to 8 vCPU, 16 GB memory, 111 GB disk	4 vCPU, 8 GB memory, 10 GB disk (default 1 vCPU, 1 GiB, 3 GiB)
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)	Auto-stops after 15 minutes idle by default; set 0 to run indefinitely
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	Containers: filesystem snapshots; VM sandboxes: memory snapshots 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	SDK, SSH with an access token; VNC on macOS sandboxes
GPUs	No	Yes (H100, H200, B200, L40S and more)
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/persistence. 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 Prices change; tell us if one is out of date.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 and forks of running VMs, or bring-your-own-compute (Enterprise).

Pick froog if

Bigger machines: froog's large size is 8 vCPU, 16 GB and 111 GB of disk, twice Daytona's CPU and memory limit and eleven times its disk.
A full VM by default, with Docker, Chrome, a browser desktop and /dev/kvm ready at boot.
Seven 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://froog.tech/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 it

Questions

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, with VMs as an option.

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 limit per sandbox is 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 10 GB of disk.

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