Daytona vs Upstash
Sandbox Benchmark Comparison · Updated October 30, 2026
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Daytona and Upstash were each faster in 1 of 2 shared sandbox benchmarks.
Head to head
Burst TTI
Median time to interactive over time
DaytonaUpstash
Median total workload time over time
DaytonaUpstash
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 pageUpstash
Active CPU$0.0064per run
57.26s median at $0.4000/hr
Large box (8 vCPU / 16 GB): $0.40/active-CPU-hour — assumes 100% CPU utilization for the whole build.
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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 Upstash 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 1.93s for Upstash, 2.89x faster. In DAX (October 23, 2026), Upstash had a median total workload time of 57.26s versus 74.40s for Daytona, 1.30x faster.
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