Code & AI agent sandboxes: read the guide
OpenComputer
Open coreSandboxThe platform for long-running agents. Define an agent like a serverless function. Choose your model. We handle the runtime.
Scanned 12 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21
- From
- $20/mo
Usage-based, one meter set for both layers: (1) model tokens passed through at provider API rates (zero with your own Codex subscription), (2) machine time billed per second while a session/sandbox runs. Plans are PREPAID usage credit with a 10× multiplier; running out drops you to PAYG rates.
- Free tier
- Not documented
$10 free credit to start (PAYG). No perpetual free tier.
- Isolation
- Virtual machine
hypervisor, or nothing at all
- Regions
- —
No current hosted region inventory or selector found. Prior sandbox docs/examples are now 404 and not reused as residency evidence. Self-host placement is operator-controlled.
- Capabilities
- 15 / 61
20 partial · 26 fail · 0 not assessed
- Agent readiness
- 11/11 · 9/11
read · drive, pre-login surface
Advertised for
Managed TypeScript serverless AI agents with durable sessions · Scheduled/webhook/Slack/GitHub triggered agent tasks · BYO harness Linux sandboxes · Code execution and coding agents · Browser automation on a Linux machine
Built for
Developers, then technical
- · CLI-first onboarding (`npm i -g @opencomputer/cli`, `opencomputer deploy`)
- · code hero (agent.ts with useModel/useTool)
- · vocabulary: KVM, microVMs, checkpoints, per-second billing
01 Pricing Usage-based, one meter set for both layers: (1) model tokens passed through at provider API rates (zero with your own Codex subscription), (2) machine time billed per second while a session/sandbox runs. Plans are PREPAID usage credit with a 10× multiplier; running out drops you to PAYG rates.
| Tier | EntryPAYG | Pro | Max | TopEnterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | usage-based ($10 free credit) | $20/mo | $200/mo | Custom |
| Includes | Model calls at API rates, machine time per second, scale to zero when idle, no monthly commitment. | Prepaid: 'Your $20 becomes 10× the usage credit'; credit covers model calls and machine time; bring your Codex subscription so model calls cost nothing. | 10× prepaid credit at scale — 'Enough to keep 10+ default machines running around the clock'. | Your own cloud or VPC, self-hosted connections, volume pricing and higher limits, SSO, audit log, priority support. |
Free tier: $10 free credit to start (PAYG). No perpetual free tier.
per-second machine time by memory/vCPU tier (quoted per minute) + per-token model passthrough·Card required: unconfirmed·opencomputer.dev
Overages: When prepaid credit runs out, usage continues at the same PAYG rates. Additional persistent cross-sandbox disks are advertised as forthcoming; no current additional storage/egress charge found.
02 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.
Isolation & lifecycle
Resources & limits
Access
Network & secrets
Placement & use
03 Capabilities 15 pass · 20 partial · 26 fail · 61 of 61 assessed
- Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
- Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
- Not supported — Checked and not offered.
- Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.
Compute & storage 1/11
Networking & delivery 0/9
Developer access 4/10
AI & agents 4/12
Data 1/4
Platform & operations 3/6
Organisation & security 2/9
Proposed, not verified
Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.
- Runtime vertical resize / automatic burstlive-resize
“Pick a baseline machine; it bursts to its peak size automatically under load and drops back when done. Burst time is billed at the peak rate.” opencomputer.dev
- Managed agent harness / serverless agent deploymentsmanaged-agent-runtime
“OpenComputer is a managed runtime for agents defined as code.” docs.opencomputer.dev
- Interruptible sandboxes (SDK option)spot-instances
“/** Create a Burst Sandbox. Disk is preserved across infrastructure restarts; processes may restart. */” github.com
04 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade
Can an agent read it?
parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces
11/11
8 full · 3 partial · 100% of applicable checks
- llms.txtSupported
- llms-full.txtSupported
- robots.txt AI policyPartially supported
- JSON-LDPartially supported
- SitemapSupported
- Meta tagsSupported
- Markdown negotiationSupported
- Content efficiencySupported
- Docs discoverableSupported
- Machine-readable pricingPartially supported
- No anti-bot wallSupported
Can an agent drive it?
act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks
9/11
6 full · 3 partial · 82% of applicable checks
- Public APISupported
- OpenAPI specNot supported
- MCP serverNot supported
- SDK packagesSupported
- Auth documentedSupported
- Self-serve credentialsPartially supported
- WebhooksSupported
- CLI toolSupported
- Error modelSupported
- Rate limits documentedPartially supported
- Agent config filesPartially supported
05 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here
Advertised integrations 5
- Claude Code AnthropicSupported
`npx skills add diggerhq/opencomputer` installs a skill that drives the `oc` CLI; homepage also offers 'Copy the prompt for Claude Code'.
- Codex CLI OpenAISupported
Homepage 'Copy the prompt for … Codex'. Separately, a Codex SUBSCRIPTION can be connected as the model account (BYOK) — that is model access, not the harness.
- Cursor AnysphereSupported
- OpenCode opencodeSupported
Homepage onboarding prompt for driving the OpenComputer CLI from the coding agent.
OpenClaw Peter Steinberger
SupportedThe vendor's own Clawputer SKU runs openclaw on OpenComputer long-lived compute (orchestrator kind).
Plausible compatibility 0
Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.
No general shell access documented, so nothing is derived. Absence is not unsupported.
06 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score
Certifications held 0
No attestations found on the public surface. Empty means nothing is advertised, after checking, not that nothing was checked.
Regions —
Regions are not disclosed on the public surface.
No current hosted region inventory or selector found. Prior sandbox docs/examples are now 404 and not reused as residency evidence. Self-host placement is operator-controlled.
Legal
07 Open source Apache-2.0 · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing
Licence & repository
- Licence
- Apache-2.0OSI
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 563
- Forks
- 65
- Created
- 9 Dec 2025
- Archived
- No
Activity
- Last commit
- 12 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- v0.6.0.49 · 28 Sep 2026
- Issues open / closed
- 12 / 37 · 76% closed
217 GitHub releases; latest v0.6.0.49 on 2026-09-28, with release notes. Repository pushed 2026-10-12T19:58:26Z. TypeScript SDK 2.3.0 and Python SDK 1.1.0 version separately.
Fetched via gh on 12 Oct 2026.
Self-hosting
- Methods
- source-buildterraformcomposeother
- You operate
- postgresredisobject-storage
Operator path: provision KVM-capable Linux workers, cloud resources and baked images; run control plane/worker services with Postgres, Redis, S3-compatible storage and secrets. SELFHOSTING.md documents QEMU/KVM sandbox cells on Azure/AWS (GCP development path), not an end-to-end self-host recipe for the managed Serverless Agents layer. The repository also includes an AWS Lambda MicroVM backend with an 8-hour maximum lifetime; this is backend code, not evidence of which backend serves hosted accounts.
Documentation signals 7/8
- SupportedQuickstart
- SupportedAPI reference
- SupportedSelf-host guide
- SupportedChangelog
- Not supportedOpenAPI
- Supportedllms.txt
- SupportedExamples
- SupportedArchitecture doc
08 Company & presence Facts only, not scored
Company
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Founded
- Digger GitHub org created 2020-09-15; opencomputer repo created 2025-12-09.
- Team size
- unknown
- Hiring
- unknown
Activity
- Last release
- v0.6.0.49 (2026-09-28); repo pushed 2026-10-12T19:58:26Z github.com
- Last blog post
- Public blog index reachable; no reliable newest-post timestamp established in current capture. Retained article: "What it takes to run an AI coworker on iMessage" (2026-05-22). opencomputer.dev
Presence 4
Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.
09 Sources & method How this entry was produced
Public surface only
Everything here was read from opencomputer.dev's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 12 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.
Statuses, not scores
Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.
Confidence is separate
Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.
- Schema
- scan v5
- Features registry
- v21
- Keys tracked today
- 61
- Assessed on this entry
- 61
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