$200 free sandbox compute for your coding agents: Daytona, no card
Daytona runs instant sandboxes for AI coding agents and bills per second for reserved vCPU, memory and disk. Its pricing page advertises $200 in free compute included and a free trial with no credit card required. Docs confirm a free credit balance in the organization wallet that is consumed before paid credits, and state free credits are not available for GPU sandboxes. After free credits run out, standard pay-as-you-go rates apply (for example about $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour of memory on the public pricing table). Startups can separately apply for up to $50k in credits.
Why it matters
Agent runs that need a clean Linux box eat local RAM and leave junk behind. Two hundred dollars of hosted sandbox time lets you try Claude Code, Codex or similar agents in isolation before you buy capacity.
Who it's for
Developers and startups who want isolated sandboxes for coding agents without putting a card down for the first experiments.
How to try it
- Open daytona.io/pricing and start the free trial (no card).
- Create an organization, confirm the $200 free credit balance appears in Wallet, and note that GPUs are excluded.
- Spin up a sandbox for your agent, run a short task, then stop or delete it so you only burn credits while it is started.
- Watch Balances in Wallet; when free credits are gone, either add a payment method or apply to the startup program for larger credits.
Plan & availability: Who qualifies: new Daytona sign-ups on the free trial; no credit card required per the pricing page. Amount: $200 free compute credits in the wallet; not usable for GPU sandboxes. Deadline: none stated on the public pricing or billing docs. Afterwards: pay-as-you-go per second. Checked on daytona.io/pricing and daytona.io/docs/en/billing on November 7, 2026.
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Source: @Daytona on www.daytona.io ↗
Written by AgentStackList from the original post. Checked Nov 7, 2026. Features, plans and availability can change, so confirm on the source before you rely on it.
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