Daytona vs Sail

Sandbox Benchmark Comparison · Updated October 30, 2026

Daytona and Sail were each faster in 1 of 2 shared sandbox benchmarks.

Head to head

  • Burst TTITime to interactive · lower is better
    Daytona faster3.20x
    Daytona
    668ms
    Sail
    2.14s92%
  • DAXTotal workload time · lower is better
    Sail faster1.10x
    Daytona
    74.40s
    Sail
    67.34s

Burst TTI

October 30, 2026

Daytona

100% success
Median
668ms
p95
747ms
p99
860ms
Daytona Burst TTI results

Sail

92% success
Median
2.14s
p95
2.15s
p99
2.16s
Sail Burst TTI results

Median time to interactive over time

16 runs · August 7, 2026 to October 30, 2026
DaytonaSail

Daytona

100% success · October 23, 2026
Median
74.40s
Daytona DAX results

Sail

100% success · October 30, 2026
Median
67.34s
Sail DAX results

Median total workload time over time

14 runs · August 14, 2026 to October 23, 2026
DaytonaSail

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 page

Sail

Observed usage
$0.0049per run
67.34s median at $0.2620/hr

$0.015/used vCPU-hr + $0.008/used GiB-hr + $0.0007/GiB-hr NVMe — bills observed usage, not reservations (upper bound shown at full utilization). Plus $0.012 per L Sailbox creation. No charge while sleeping.

Source pricing page
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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 and Sail were each faster in 1 of 2 shared sandbox benchmarks. In Burst TTI (October 30, 2026), Daytona had a median time to interactive of 668ms versus 2.14s for Sail, 3.20x faster. In DAX (October 23, 2026), Sail had a median total workload time of 67.34s versus 74.40s for Daytona, 1.10x faster.

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