COMPARE / GROTTE / DAYTONA

GROTTE vs Daytona.

Daytona's strength is its dev-environment heritage and per-second billing. GROTTE is the EU-sovereign cousin focused on agents - same sandbox-as-a-service shape, opinionated about Mistral and AES-256 key vaulting.

GROTTEDaytona

Data residencyFR-PAR / Scaleway / EU only
US-incorporated / multi-region
Pricing modelTiered (Free/Hobby/Pro/Team) + usage
Pay-as-you-go per second
Free trial100 sandbox-hours / month / no CC
$200 in free compute / no CC
vCPU rateIncluded in tier (Free/Hobby/Pro/Team)
$0.0504 / hour
GPU supportNot yet / Mistral inference handled by provider
H100 $3.95 / h / RTX PRO 6000 $3.03 / h
BYOM vaultBuilt-in / AES-256 / 9 providers / per-team RLS
Env vars per sandbox (no managed vault)
Agent templates8 pre-built (claude-code / aider / opencode / codex)
Generic Linux images
GDPR positioningEU-native DPA / Scaleway sub-processor
SCCs for EU customers

Boot time / live

FR-PAR / synthetic probe / last 24 h

P50…

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EU sovereignty

Their data residency: US-incorporated / global cluster.

Inference in Paris. Data in Paris. DPA in Paris.

Migration recipe

Swap Daytona for GROTTE in one diff.

Before / Daytona

# Daytona
from daytona import Daytona

daytona = Daytona()
sandbox = daytona.create()
response = sandbox.process.exec("echo 'Hello'")
print(response.result)
sandbox.delete()

After / GROTTE

# GROTTE
from grotte import Sandbox

sbx = Sandbox.create("base")
result = sbx.commands.run("echo 'Hello'")
print(result.stdout)
sbx.kill()

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