# daytonaio/daytona

Daytona is a Secure and Elastic Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code

Repository: https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/daytona
Homepage: https://daytona.io
License Family: other
Topics: developer-tools, agentic-workflow, ai, ai-agents, ai-runtime, code-execution, code-interpreter, ai-sandboxes
Last push: 2026-07-24T07:12:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 78, longevity 67
- inputs: {"age_days": 939, "days_push": 40, "days_rel": 71, "gap_med": 2, "n_releases_24m": 146}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 71868, forks 5646 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:21.079123+00:00)

## What it is
Daytona is a secure, elastic infrastructure platform for running AI-generated code in isolated sandboxes with dedicated kernels, filesystems, and allocated compute resources. It provides SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Rust), an API, and a CLI for sandbox lifecycle management, code execution, and filesystem operations in agent workflows.

## Use cases
- run AI-generated code in isolated sandboxes
- execute Python or TypeScript code from an AI agent
- spin up ephemeral compute environments in milliseconds
- build AI agent workflows with persistent stateful snapshots
- run a code interpreter for LLM outputs
- sandbox untrusted code execution safely
- manage sandbox lifecycles programmatically via SDK

## When to choose
- you need fast, isolated execution environments for AI agent code
- you want SDKs in multiple languages for sandbox management
- you need OCI/Docker-compatible sandboxes with snapshots and persistence
- you are building agentic workflows that require code execution

## When to avoid
- you need ongoing support or updates - the open-source repo is no longer maintained as of June 2026
- you want a fully open-source solution - core development has moved to a private codebase
- you need a simple local sandbox without a cloud service dependency

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: sdk, cli, http-server, developer-tools, security, cloud
- domain: artificial-intelligence, developer-tools, cloud-computing, self-hosted
- platform: cross-platform, python, go, rust, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: sandbox, code-execution, code-interpreter, ai-sandboxes, agentic-workflows, oci-compatibility, snapshots, code-interpreter, ai-agents, automation, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- daytonaio/daytona (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.079123+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:16:22.236800+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:21.079123+00:00, sha 61863786a897)
  - homepage: https://daytona.io (fetched 2026-08-28T17:49:59.678602+00:00, sha edd96cad788c)
  - site_page: https://www.daytona.io/docs/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:49:59.687579+00:00, sha f148cf9b72f3)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/daytona (fetched 2026-08-28T17:49:59.691400+00:00, sha c8bb02987784)
  - site_page: https://www.daytona.io/pricing (fetched 2026-08-28T17:49:59.689729+00:00, sha 08bb46ccb5d1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.