Introduction to Daytona

Secure and elastic infrastructure for running your AI-generated code

Run AI code. Secure and elastic infrastructure for running your AI-generated code.

Daytona provides lightning-fast, isolated sandbox environments for executing AI-generated code with zero risk to your infrastructure. Create sandboxes in under 90ms, execute code securely, and scale with massive parallelization.

Key features

Lightning-fast infrastructure

Sub-90ms sandbox creation from code to execution

Separated & isolated runtime

Execute AI-generated code with zero risk to your infrastructure

Programmatic control

File, Git, LSP, and Execute API for complete sandbox control

Unlimited persistence

Your sandboxes can live forever with auto-archive and auto-delete options

OCI/Docker compatibility

Use any OCI/Docker image to create a sandbox

Massive parallelization

Fork sandbox filesystem and memory state for concurrent AI workflows (coming soon)

Get started in minutes

Quickstart

Get to a working sandbox in under 5 minutes

Installation

Install the SDK for Python, TypeScript, Go, or Ruby

Authentication

Set up your API key and configure the SDK

Use cases

Daytona is perfect for:

• AI agents: Execute AI-generated code safely in isolated environments
• Code interpreters: Run user-submitted code without security risks
• CI/CD pipelines: Create ephemeral build environments
• Developer environments: Spin up consistent development sandboxes
• Educational platforms: Provide students with isolated coding environments

Community and support

Join our Slack

Get help from the community and Daytona team

GitHub

Report bugs, request features, and contribute