Layer / Where agents run
Sandboxing
Isolated computers, preview environments, and network policy so an agent can act without inheriting a developer laptop.
- Blaxel
Agent sandbox/compute with a hibernation-shaped billing story.
- Bolt
StackBlitz’s in-browser agent that builds apps in WebContainers.
- Browserbase
Headless browsers as a service for agents that must click.
- Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent across terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser.
- Cloudflare Sandbox
Isolated code execution on Cloudflare, next to Workers.
- Coder
Self-hosted workspaces on your infrastructure, Terraform-defined.
- Cursor
An agent-native IDE with cloud agents that run in isolated VMs.
- Dagger
Programmable CI/CD engine agents can call as a tool.
- Daytona
Workspaces for agents, with a more persistent posture than E2B.
- Devbox
Nix-powered reproducible shells for humans and agents.
- Devin
Cognition’s cloud software engineer; Windsurf is now Devin Desktop.
- E2B
Firecracker microVMs as a sandbox API for AI agents.
- Factory
Droids across the SDLC, sold as a software factory.
- Firecracker
AWS’s microVM monitor that sandbox vendors wrap.
- Fly Machines
Fast microVMs you API-control, used as agent computers.
- GitHub Codespaces
Microsoft-hosted dev VMs that agents and humans already share.
- Gitpod
Open-source platform for automated, ready-to-code environments.
- Jules
Google’s asynchronous coding agent that opens pull requests.
- Lovable
Prompt-to-full-stack app builder with a hosted computer.
- Modal
Serverless containers and GPUs that agents can treat as a computer.
- Northflank
Workloads and sandboxes on your cloud, with an agent-aware pitch.
- OpenHands
Open software-agent runtime with a computer you can watch.
- Replit Agent
Hosted computer plus agent that can build and deploy an app.
- Steel
Open-source browser sandbox API for AI agents.
- Trevize
Shared cloud workspaces where teams and agents close the loop.
- Vercel Sandbox
Vercel’s documented sandbox primitive for running untrusted code.
- Warp
Open terminal, multi-model agents, and factories in early access.
- WebContainers
StackBlitz’s in-browser Node runtime used as an agent sandbox.