Building a Devin Clone with Claude: Benchmarking 5 Agent Sandboxes
23kunal · reddit · 2026-08-03
The author benchmarked 5 popular coding agent sandbox providers (E2B, Daytona, Ascii Box, exe, Islo) by having Claude Opus build a Devin clone.
- Integration: All tests successfully created GitHub-connected agents, but capabilities like sandbox pause/resume and forking varied significantly.
- Cost & Speed: E2B was the fastest and cheapest to build ($6.38, 21 mins) but had the lowest spec completeness; exe was the most expensive ($20).
- Runtime Costs: Running 100 agents for an hour cost $3.60 on the cheapest provider (Ascii Box) versus $60 on the most expensive (Islo).
The results highlight massive differences in API usability and runtime economics, offering valuable data for developers choosing backend infrastructure.
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