Agent sandboxes by use case
Answer in brief
No sandbox is right for everything, because workloads stress different things: coding agents need persistence, code interpreters need fast startup, RL needs concurrency and forking, computer use needs a desktop. Pick the closest workload to see what it needs and which sandboxes fit.
- Coding agentsChoosing a sandbox for coding agentsWhat matters: persistence, long sessions, preview urls, docker. 13 sandboxes fit.
- Code interpretersChoosing a sandbox for code interpreters and data analysisWhat matters: fast startup, stateful kernels, files, no network. 10 sandboxes fit.
- RL & evalsChoosing a sandbox for reinforcement learning and agent evalsWhat matters: concurrency, forking, fast reset, reproducibility. 10 sandboxes fit.
- Computer useChoosing a sandbox for computer-use and browser agentsWhat matters: virtual desktop, os choice, long sessions. 13 sandboxes fit.
- GPU workloadsChoosing a GPU sandbox for AI agentsWhat matters: gpu range, billing granularity, isolation. 10 sandboxes fit.
- Open source & self-hostedChoosing an open-source or self-hosted agent sandboxWhat matters: licence, isolation, hardware, operations. 11 sandboxes fit.
- Enterprise & BYOCChoosing an agent sandbox for enterprise and BYOCWhat matters: byoc, compliance, vpc, governance. 10 sandboxes fit.
- Local agentsChoosing a sandbox for local coding agentsWhat matters: filesystem limits, network allowlist, low friction. 8 sandboxes fit.
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Agent Sandboxes. (2026). Agent sandboxes by use case. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 9, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/use-cases/
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