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How Dormo compares, with sources

Every platform below is a good product with different trade-offs. This table only uses public information, dated and linked. Where we are behind, it says so.

As of October 2026. Competitor data comes from the battleships.dev dataset (snapshot 2026-10-14) and each vendor's own pricing and documentation pages linked in the column headers. Dormo values describe what we are building for the beta; the product is not generally available yet. Found something out of date? Email hello@dormo.dev and we will fix it.

Feature Dormo (beta) boat.dev E2B Daytona Modal exe.dev Boxd
List price, 4 vCPU / 8 GB per hour $0.030 (active only) $0.036 $0.331 $0.331 $0.760 $0.328 ~€0.26 at full load, ~€0.04 typical (billed per active vCPU and GiB)
Isolation Firecracker microVM (own kernel), jailer, netns per VM Full VM (KVM) on dedicated AMD Ryzen hosts Firecracker microVM Containers by default; optional VM class gVisor by default; VM runtime (Cloud Hypervisor) since Oct 2026 Full VM (Cloud Hypervisor) Hardware-isolated VM, own virtualization engine (VMM not named)
Pause keeps RAM (memory snapshot) Yes, resume < 1 s (target p95 < 800 ms) No. Disk snapshots only; resume boots again Yes Yes Yes (snapshots) No Yes (standby keeps RAM warm, billed; hibernate wakes in 156 ms)
Auto-pause / stop when idle Yes, default 5 min No Yes Yes Yes No Yes (auto-hibernate after 4 h without traffic)
Wake on request Yes (HTTP, SSH, API) No Yes (HTTP) No No No Yes
Fork a running VM Yes, with memory, < 2 s Live fork, without memory Yes, with memory (up to 100 copies) Yes, with memory Yes, with memory Live fork, without memory snapshot Yes, with memory
Root, systemd, Docker inside Yes Yes Yes Root and Docker yes; systemd: no data gVisor: no Docker; VM runtime: yes Yes Yes
Nested virtualization (KVM in the VM) No (roadmap) Yes No Yes VM runtime only Yes No
Desktop streaming & computer use Yes (KasmVNC, screenshot + input API) Yes Yes Yes No No Desktop listed; no computer-use API listed
Custom OCI / Docker images Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Egress allowlist Planned No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
MCP server Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Webhooks Yes (HMAC-signed) Yes Yes Yes No data No No
Open source core Not yet (roadmap) No Yes (Apache-2.0) No No No No
Self-host / BYOC BYOC on Enterprise; self-host on roadmap No / No Yes / Yes No / Yes No / No No / Yes Yes (self-host free up to 16 vCPU; BYOC on Scale plan)
SOC 2 Not yet (planned year 2) No Yes Yes Yes No In progress (per vendor)
GPU No No No Yes Yes (gVisor runtime) No No
Regions EU only DE, FI, FR DE, SG, US DE, US AU, CA, GB, IE, IN, JP, MX, US AU, DE, GB, JP, SG, US DE (US announced)

Boxd figures are from boxd.sh/pricing and tech.eu (November 2026); Boxd prices in EUR per active resource, and the 4 vCPU / 8 GB figures are our calculation from its rate card, not a listed size. "No" means the feature is not listed for that provider in the battleships.dev dataset or the vendor's docs at the time of writing. "No data" means the dataset does not say. Prices are on-demand list prices for 4 vCPU / 8 GB (or the nearest larger size) and exclude plan fees, credits and storage.

When another platform is the better fit

Choosing infrastructure is easier when vendors are honest about it.

You need GPUs

We do not offer GPUs. Daytona and Modal list GPU sandboxes.

You need SOC 2 today

We do not have a SOC 2 report yet. E2B, Daytona and Modal list SOC 2.

You want to self-host today, for free

Our open-source core is on the roadmap, not in the beta. Boxd offers a free self-hosted version up to 16 vCPU.

You need nested KVM or regions outside the EU

Both are on our roadmap but not in the beta. boat.dev and exe.dev offer nested virtualization; E2B, Daytona, Modal and exe.dev run outside the EU.

Where we aim to win: the bill for VMs that are idle most of the day. See the cost calculator.