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boxd vs Daytona
Two code sandboxes tools for AI agents, side by side. Facts come from each tool's own site.
boxd
boxd.shHardware-isolated Linux VMs for agents and developers that keep running processes, files and shell state between sessions, with fork, snapshot, pause and hibernate, in boxd's cloud or self-hosted.
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Daytona
daytona.ioSecure sandboxes for running AI-generated code. Its public GitHub repo is archived: core development moved to a private codebase in June 2026.
Visit Daytona| boxd | Daytona | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Hardware-isolated Linux VMs for agents and developers that keep running processes, files and shell state between sessions, with fork, snapshot, pause and hibernate, in boxd's cloud or self-hosted. | Secure sandboxes for running AI-generated code. Its public GitHub repo is archived: core development moved to a private codebase in June 2026. |
| In their words | Composable computers for devs and agents | Daytona - Secure Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code |
| Open source | No | No |
| Website | boxd.sh | daytona.io |
| Link checked | 2026-11-08 | 2026-10-20 |
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