Our take
Pick Coder if platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support. Pick Daytona if agent platforms that will create/destroy sandboxes in code and might attach a GPU later. Skip Daytona if researchers who
self-host workspace desk
Best for
Coder Workspaces you start at $0
Daytona Run untrusted agent code (and, if needed, a GPU)
Free plan
Coder $0 · (“Free”). Open source. Unlimited self-hosted workspaces on infrastructure you own. Environments as code. Run Claude Code / Codex / Cursor inside ephemeral workspaces. VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Jupyter. Includes AI Governance. Community support on GitHub and Discord. FAQ: 5-agent cap on Community and Premium
Daytona No free plan
Lowest paid
Coder Not published by the vendor
Daytona Storage $0.000108
Next step up
Coder
Daytona Memory $0.0162
Coding agent
Coder Agents
Daytona Computer-use + code interpreter
Runs where
Coder Local or hosted
Daytona Hosted
Watch out
Coder Community is $0 and a 5-agent cap
Daytona Stopped sandboxes still pay disk
Last checked
Coder 2026-10-22 · coder.com/pricing
Daytona 2026-10-22 · daytona.io/pricing
platform teams who will stay on Community $0 (unlimited self-hosted workspaces, 5 agents, GitHub/Discord support) while they Create workspace from a first template, then talk to sales for Premium when they need HA, workspace proxies, multi-org RBAC, and SLA support.
Read the Coder pageagent platforms that will create/destroy sandboxes in code and might attach a GPU later.
Read the Daytona page