Best sandboxes for AI agents in 2026

Pricing compared

Every price on these pages is for one person's bots, which share one computer by default: 2 vCPU and 4 GB of memory, enough for a Linux desktop, Chromium and a terminal, running 4 hours a workday (88 hours a month) or around the clock (720 hours). Rakazo gives each person one team computer per space, plus one for each bot you give a computer of its own, so for a space where N people use bots, multiply by N. Rakazo stops or pauses a hosted computer after 10 minutes without use, so you pay for roughly the hours bots work. Where a provider or Rakazo can't use that size, the row says which size it prices.

On Rakazo Cloud you don't pay a sandbox provider: computers run on Boat and come with the plan, and the pricing page lists the computer hours each plan includes. The table is for a self-hosted Rakazo, where you bring your own provider.

Prices in US dollars unless marked, from each provider's pricing page, checked November 2026. Your model provider bills separately. Usage before free credits. Rakazo can't run Boat at 2 vCPU / 4 GB: self-hosted installs use 4 vCPU / 8 GB machines, which cost $20 and $25.92, and larger Rakazo Cloud plans use larger ones. Each option's page shows the rates and assumptions behind its numbers.

• For a few hours a day, per-second providers are cheapest. Novita has the lowest rate of the hosted options Rakazo supports, and E2B and Daytona charge the same as each other.
• Boat's $20 minimum covers about 555 hours of the bigger computer self-hosted Rakazo uses, and it covers every computer on the account, so it is cheaper than E2B or Daytona once your computers run more than about 120 hours a month between them, and by far around the clock.
• A server you rent for Docker costs the same whether bots work or not. It's the cheapest way to run many computers, if you're happy to look after it.

Hosted sandboxes compared, including ones Rakazo doesn't support

Most sandboxes that come up as E2B alternatives are built for running code, not a desktop a person can watch. Modal, Vercel Sandbox, Northflank and Blaxel are good at that, and the table includes them for reference, but Rakazo doesn't support them. Rakazo also works with CreateOS and boxd, which don't have their own page here; the computer providers guide covers them.

Prices in US dollars unless marked, from each provider's pricing page, checked November 2026. Your model provider bills separately. Usage only, before free credits, at each provider's default region. Vercel bills CPU only while it is busy, so its price depends on how hard the bot works.

• None of the code-first sandboxes ships a desktop for a person to watch and take over, keeps each bot's browser logins apart, or saves a workspace that survives a switch of provider. Rakazo adds those on every provider it supports.
• Session caps matter for agents. E2B's Hobby plan, Novita's free tier and Vercel's Hobby plan end a session within an hour, so a bot on a long research task needs a paid plan or a provider without a cap.
• Daytona closed its source in June 2026. E2B is now the main open source hosted sandbox, and Northflank the main one that runs in your own cloud.

Isolation: containers, gVisor and microVMs

How strongly a sandbox separates a bot from everything else depends on what sits between them. Containers share the host's kernel, so a kernel bug can let a process out. gVisor puts a kernel written in user space in the way. A microVM gives every sandbox its own small kernel behind a hypervisor. Stronger boundaries cost a little speed and, on your own hardware, need virtualization support.