Daytona

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Daytona is a cloud infrastructure platform for AI agents, providing programmable, sub-90ms isolated sandboxes for executing AI-generated code across multiple languages. It serves Fortune 100 enterprises, YC startups, and developer teams via a self-serve PLG motion and enterprise sales.

Company typePrivate
Founded2023
HeadquartersNew York, United States
Headcount51–100
GTM typeB2B
OfferingSoftware

What Daytona does

Daytona is a cloud infrastructure platform purpose-built for AI agents and AI-generated code execution. Founded in 2023 by Croatian founders Ivan Burazin (CEO), Vedran Jukić (CTO), and Goran Draganić (Chief Architect) — veterans of the Codeanywhere cloud development platform — the company is incorporated in Delaware as Daytona Platforms, Inc. with operational headquarters in New York, NY, and engineering presence in Croatia and San Francisco. Its core product is a programmable sandbox primitive: a fully isolated execution environment (dedicated kernel, filesystem, network stack, allocated vCPU/RAM/disk) that spins up in under 90 milliseconds, supports parallel execution at scale, persists state through snapshots, and exposes programmatic control via SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Java, plus a REST API and CLI.

The platform is designed around AI-agent workloads including coding agents, code interpreters, AI evaluations, data analysis, reinforcement-learning training, and computer-use/GUI automation. Daytona operates a multi-region footprint (India, Frankfurt, London, Washington DC, Oregon) with Docker/OCI compatibility, supports GPU compute (Nvidia H100 and RTX PRO 6000), and offers BYOC deployment for regulated enterprise use cases. Customers span early-stage startups (LangChain, Orchids, Mastra.ai, AfterQuery, Clay, Mintlify) to Fortune 100 enterprises (Prosus, Writer, CoreWeave, Handshake, Elementor), with named strategic design partners including SambaNova and Turing.

Daytona runs a dual GTM motion: self-serve product-led growth via a free trial ($200 in included compute, no credit card required, pay-as-you-go usage billing) and an enterprise sales motion (Contact Sales, SSO, audit logs, BYOC, SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR compliance). Distribution is layered through a Startup Grid program offering up to $50K in credits to qualifying startups sourced via partner VCs (FirstMark, Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, HF0, Bessemer, Sequoia), a Daytona's Pacers community ambassador program, and integrations with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents, LangChain, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode, Mastra, and AgentKit. As of February 2026, Daytona had closed a $24M Series A led by FirstMark Capital (with Datadog and Figma Ventures as strategic investors), bringing total funding to $31M, and disclosed a forward revenue run rate that reached ~$1M within three months of the AI-agent launch and nearly doubled within the following six weeks.

Daytona firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Daytona
Legal name: Daytona Platforms, Inc.
Website: https://daytona.io
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2023
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 51–100 employees
Short description: Daytona is a cloud infrastructure platform for AI agents, providing programmable, sub-90ms isolated sandboxes for executing AI-generated code across multiple languages. It serves Fortune 100 enterprises, YC startups, and developer teams via a self-serve PLG motion and enterprise sales.
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Daytona industry classification

Industry

Product category: AI Agent Infrastructure
NAICS: Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)
SIC: Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)
akta.pro primary industry: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (HDABAHAH)
akta.pro secondary industries: Serverless & PaaS Security (Function/App Service Runtime) (HDADADAL), Secure Model Deployment & Runtime Protection (sandboxing, isolation) (HDAAAKAH), Microservices & Service Mesh Security (HDADACAJ)

Keywords

Ai agent infrastructure
Sandbox runtime platform
Code execution environments
Cloud development infrastructure
Ai coding agents

Where Daytona is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: New York
HQ country: United States
HQ region: North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

Daytona business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

Pay-as-you-go usage-based compute pricing: Per-hour (and per-second) compute billing across vCPU, GPU (Nvidia H100 at $3.95/h, RTX PRO 6000 at $3.03/h), memory (GiB), storage, and Windows (premium). Includes $200 in free compute at sign-up; volume discounts as customers scale.
Enterprise tier subscriptions: Enterprise plans with larger limits, SSO, audit logs, BYOC deployment, SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and dedicated support. Sales-led via 'Contact Sales' CTA; customized multi-year contracts likely.
Startup Grid credits (deferred/converting): Up to $50,000 in Daytona credits issued to qualifying startups (with $10K straight away), conditional on use-case fit (Coding Agents, Code Interpreter, AI Evaluations, Data Analysis, Computer Use, Training/Fine-tuning, etc.) and partnership with listed VCs/accelerators. Functions as a freemium/acquisition channel that converts into usage revenue.
Free trial / free compute allowance: Free trial sign-up (no credit card required) with $200 in included free compute, serving as a self-serve acquisition funnel into paid usage.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Usage-based	Pay-as-you-go	Pay-as-you-go usage-based compute (vCPU, GPU, memory, storage, OS)
Freemium	Pay-as-you-go	Free trial (no credit card required)
Other	Multi-year contract	Enterprise tier (quote-based)
Freemium	Pay-as-you-go	Startup Grid credits

Go-to-market motion6 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels7 records

Daytona product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Daytona is a secure, elastic cloud infrastructure platform that spins up isolated sandbox environments in under 90 milliseconds for executing AI-generated code. Each sandbox is a composable computer with a dedicated kernel, filesystem, network stack, and allocated vCPU/RAM/disk, supporting Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, and Java with Docker/OCI compatibility. The platform exposes programmatic control through SDKs, REST API, and CLI, and is purpose-built for AI agent workloads including coding agents, code interpreters, AI evaluations, data analysis, reinforcement learning, and computer use automation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

Daytona Sandbox Platform Cloud-based secure and elastic infrastructure platform that spins up isolated sandbox environments in under 90 milliseconds for executing AI-generated code; each sandbox has a dedicated kernel, filesystem, network stack, and allocated vCPU/RAM/disk and supports Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, and Java. Used by developers and enterprises building AI coding agents, code interpreters, AI evaluations, data analysis pipelines, RL training systems, and computer-use automation.

Quantifiable outcome

~90ms sandbox cold start (vs slower competitors per 2026 comparison)
+4 more outcomes

Companies that use Daytona

Customer profile

Named customers19 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Daytona technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: Yes
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability11 records

Feature12 records

Daytona partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered flagship — supported sandbox runtime for claude managed agents, minor — strategic grant recipient / ecosystem play, co-supported sandbox provider for claude managed agents, mid — co-host of ai builders nyc meetup (june 2026), mid — co-host of ai builders sf meetup (may 2026), minor — co-host of ai builders singapore meetup (may 2026) and minor — co-host of hacksprint dublin (march 2026).

Anthropicflagship — supported sandbox runtime for claude managed agentsStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2026Daytona is one of four supported sandbox providers (alongside Cloudflare, Modal, and Vercel) for Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. Anthropic's customers can choose Daytona to execute agent tool calls within their own infrastructure or managed provider environments while the core agent loop remains on Anthropic's infrastructure.
BeatAI.iominor — strategic grant recipient / ecosystem playGTM or Marketing Partner · 6 March 2026Daytona.io issued a strategic grant to BeatAI.io to support BeatAI.io's growth and reduce operational costs, accelerating development of creative AI solutions in entertainment technology.
Upfront Ventures5 February 2026
Cloudflareco-supported sandbox provider for claude managed agentsTechnology or IntegrationCo-listed with Daytona as supported sandbox providers for Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents. Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, and Vercel together cover enterprise options for self-hosted agent execution.
Modalco-supported sandbox provider for claude managed agentsTechnology or IntegrationCo-listed with Daytona as supported sandbox providers for Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents. Modal is also a peer competitor in the 2026 sandbox comparison (with GPU support).
Vercelco-supported sandbox provider for claude managed agentsTechnology or IntegrationCo-listed with Daytona as supported sandbox providers for Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents. Vercel Sandbox is also a peer in the 2026 sandbox comparison (I/O-heavy workloads, active-CPU billing).
Oraclemid — co-host of ai builders nyc meetup (june 2026)GTM or Marketing PartnerCo-host of Daytona's 'AI Builders w/ Oracle - NYC' meetup in June 2026, a gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals.
WorkOSmid — co-host of ai builders sf meetup (may 2026)GTM or Marketing PartnerCo-host of Daytona's 'Daytona & WorkOS AI Builders - SF' meetup in May 2026.
Zo Computerminor — co-host of ai builders singapore meetup (may 2026)GTM or Marketing PartnerCo-host of Daytona's 'Daytona AI Builders w/ Zo Computer - Singapore' meetup in May 2026.
Give(a)Gominor — co-host of hacksprint dublin (march 2026)GTM or Marketing PartnerCo-host of Daytona's 'Daytona & Give(a)Go HackSprint - Dublin' event in March 2026.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Daytona competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

Coder: Coder provides self-hosted cloud development environments for enterprises, an open-source platform directly comparable to Daytona's original pre-pivot product positioning and current enterprise tier.
Modal: Modal provides serverless compute and sandboxes for running AI-generated code and Python workloads with usage-based pricing. Co-listed with Daytona as a supported Anthropic Claude Managed Agents sandbox provider, and head-to-head in 2026 sandbox cold-start comparisons.
Gitpod: Gitpod offers automated, cloud-hosted development environments with self-hosted and managed options, directly comparable to Daytona's developer-environment roots and isolated execution surface for AI workloads.
E2B: E2B offers open-source secure sandboxes purpose-built for AI agents and AI-generated code execution, with SDKs and infrastructure for AI coding assistants. Directly comparable to Daytona on isolation, cold start, and agent-runtime positioning.
Vercel (Sandbox): Vercel Sandbox provides isolated execution environments for AI coding agents as part of Vercel's broader frontend cloud platform. Co-listed with Daytona for Anthropic Claude Managed Agents and directly compared on cold-start performance in 2026 benchmarks.

Broad incumbents

Replit: Replit provides cloud-hosted development environments and an emerging agent runtime for AI coding, with broad consumer and prosumer distribution. Comparable to Daytona's developer-environment and sandbox primitives at significantly larger scale.
Cloudflare (Workers / Sandbox): Cloudflare offers Workers and a sandboxing layer for AI agents as part of its global edge cloud platform. Co-listed with Daytona as an Anthropic Claude Managed Agents sandbox provider, but operates across a much broader infrastructure portfolio.
GitHub Codespaces: GitHub Codespaces is Microsoft's cloud-hosted development environment service and the original enterprise-grade positioning of Daytona. Shares the cloud-dev-environment and isolated-execution primitives that Daytona has extended into AI agent workloads.

Emerging players

Fly.io: Fly.io runs containerized workloads close to users with isolation primitives useful for agent execution. Comparable as an emerging infrastructure player for AI-agent compute, though with a different developer-experience orientation than Daytona.
Northflank: Northflank provides a container-based developer platform for running services, jobs, and sandboxes with CI/CD and production orchestration. Comparable to Daytona as an emerging infrastructure player for AI-agent execution and isolated runtime workloads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Daytona financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Daytona leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Daytona funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Daytona M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments2 records

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Daytona

What does Daytona do?

Is Daytona a public or private company?

Daytona is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.

When was Daytona founded?

Daytona was founded in 2023. It employs 51 to 100 people.

Where is Daytona based?

Daytona is headquartered in New York, United States, in the North America region.

How does Daytona make money?

Four revenue lines are on record. Pay-as-you-go usage-based compute pricing is the primary driver. The others are enterprise tier subscriptions, startup Grid credits (deferred/converting) and free trial / free compute allowance.

Who are Daytona's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Coder, Modal, Gitpod, E2B and Vercel (Sandbox). Broad incumbents are Replit, Cloudflare (Workers / Sandbox) and GitHub Codespaces. Emerging players are Fly.io and Northflank.

Does Daytona have an API?

Yes. Daytona provides a RESTful API with an OpenAPI specification (RESTful API and a Toolbox API for sandbox control operations). Authentication is via API keys generated from the Daytona Dashboard or via the API itself, and is supported via configuration in code, environment variables, .env files, or defaults. The platform exposes multiple programmatic surfaces: language SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java), a CLI for Mac/Linux/Windows, a Toolbox API for computer-use/agent operations, and a built-in MCP Server. Account creation supports email/password plus Google or GitHub OAuth. Open-source client libraries and an OpenAPI spec are publicly published. Developer documentation is at www.daytona.io/docs/en/tools/api.

What industry is Daytona in?

Daytona's product category is AI Agent Infrastructure. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDABAHAH, Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), with a secondary code of HDADADAL, Serverless & PaaS Security (Function/App Service Runtime). Its NAICS code is 54151 and its SIC code is 7373.