Buddy vs SailSandbox Benchmark Comparison

Buddy
Faster in 2 of 2
vs
Sail
Faster in 0 of 2

Buddy was faster in both shared sandbox benchmarks.

Shared benchmarks
2
Last run
October 30, 2026
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Scorecard

Median of each benchmark's primary metric; lower is better. Medians within 5% count as roughly even, and a benchmark gets no speed verdict when either provider completed fewer than 50% of runs.

BenchmarkBuddySailResultRatio
Burst TTI
Time to interactive · Run October 30, 2026
905ms
100% success
2.14s
92% success
Buddy faster
2.36x
DAX
Total workload time · Run October 30, 2026
59.09s
100% success
67.34s
100% success
Buddy faster
1.14x

Burst TTI

Run October 30, 2026

Time from sandbox creation to the first successful command, with 100 sandboxes launched at the same time.

Time to interactive

Buddy

100% success
Median
905ms
P95
1.08s
P99
1.11s
Buddy Burst TTI results →

Sail

92% success
Median
2.14s
P95
2.15s
P99
2.16s
Sail Burst TTI results →

Buddy had a 2.36x lower median time to interactive (905ms vs 2.14s for Sail).

Median time to interactive over time

6 runs from October 2, 2026 to October 30, 2026.

BuddySail
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DAX

Run October 30, 2026

A real developer workload: install system packages, download Bun, clone the opencode repo, then run bun install and bun typecheck.

Total workload time

Buddy

100% success
Median
59.09s
P95
59.09s
P99
59.09s
Buddy DAX results →

Sail

100% success
Median
67.34s
P95
67.34s
P99
67.34s
Sail DAX results →

Buddy had a 1.14x lower median total workload time (59.09s vs 67.34s for Sail).

Median total workload time over time

4 runs from October 16, 2026 to October 30, 2026.

BuddySail
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Methodology

  • One workload, every provider. The same script, payload, and model hit every provider, addressed the way its own API expects. Nobody gets a tuned or special path.
  • Repeated on a schedule. Every suite runs many iterations per provider, automated on a recurring schedule, so results reflect steady state rather than one lucky request.
  • Raw results published. Every run is committed as JSON to the public benchmarks repo, next to the code that produced it. Nothing is cherry-picked or held back.
  • How this comparison is built. Each benchmark compares the two providers' medians; results within 5% count as roughly even. A comparison is published only when both providers completed at least 50% of runs in 2 or more shared benchmarks run in the last 30 days.

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Buddy was faster in both shared sandbox benchmarks. In Burst TTI (October 30, 2026), Buddy had a median time to interactive of 905ms versus 2.14s for Sail, 2.36x faster. In DAX (October 30, 2026), Buddy had a median total workload time of 59.09s versus 67.34s for Sail, 1.14x faster.

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