Daytona vs Modal
Sandbox Benchmark Comparison · Updated October 30, 2026
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Daytona was faster in both shared sandbox benchmarks.
Head to head
Burst TTI
Median time to interactive over time
DaytonaModal
Median total workload time over time
DaytonaModal
Cost per DAX run
Daytona
Per-second wall clock$0.014per run
74.40s median at $0.6624/hr
$0.000014/vCPU-s + $0.0000045/GiB-s — identical rates to E2B. Creating/stopping transitions bill as running.
Source pricing pageModal
Per-second, max(request, actual)$0.028per run
105.55s median at $0.9518/hr
Sandbox rate $0.00003942/core-s (4 cores = 8 vCPU) + $0.00000667/GiB-s. Regional multipliers (1.25–2.5x) not included.
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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. If a provider’s latest run of a benchmark failed, its most recent successful run from that window is used instead.
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Daytona was faster in both shared sandbox benchmarks. In Burst TTI (October 30, 2026), Daytona had a median time to interactive of 668ms versus 751ms for Modal, 1.12x faster. In DAX (October 23, 2026), Daytona had a median total workload time of 74.40s versus 105.55s for Modal, 1.42x faster.
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