{ "features_resolved": { "snapshot_any": true, "snapshot_mem": true, "fork": true, "pause_resume": true, "persistent_disk": true, "whole_disk": true, "persist_scope": null, "volumes": true, "auto_stop_idle": false, "long_sessions": true, "custom_image": true, "image_snapshot": true, "image_oci": true, "vm_isolation": true, "docker_inside": true, "nested_virt": false, "root": true, "systemd": null, "browser": false, "desktop": false, "computer_use": false, "code_interpreter": false, "browser_control": null, "desktop_control": null, "browser_and_desktop": false, "anti_bot": false, "captcha_solving": false, "residential_ip": false, "agent_harnesses": true, "ssh": true, "public_ipv4": false, "inbound_https": true, "custom_domain": null, "raw_tcp_inbound": null, "egress_allowlist": true, "open_internet": null, "static_egress_ip": false, "private_network": null, "self_host": false, "byoc": false, "open_source": false, "soc2": false, "hipaa": false, "sso": true, "gpu": false, "arm64": true, "windows": false, "macos": false, "lang_python": true, "lang_node": true, "lang_go": null, "lang_rust": null, "lang_java": null, "gpu_desktop": false, "credential_injection": true, "egress_http_rules": false, "wake_on_request": null, "live_resize": false, "fork_running": true, "memory_snapshot_fork": true, "webhooks": null, "scheduled_wakeups": null, "audit_logs": null, "eu_data_residency": false, "zero_data_retention": null, "scoped_api_keys": null, "spend_limits": null, "mcp_server": true, "usage_api": false, "snapshot_auto": true, "snapshot_on_demand": true, "harness_api": false, "own_agent_api": false, "fast_boot": null, "strong_isolation": true, "ingress_rules": true, "guest_firewall": true, "secret_proxy": true, "secret_proxy_any": true, "volume_attach": true, "volume_shared": false, "sidecar": null, "fuse": true, "kernel_features": true, "burst": null }, "company": { "id": "docker-cloud-sandboxes", "checked": "2026-09-30", "company": "Docker, Inc.", "ownership": { "value": "independent", "parent": null, "source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/docker", "quote": "Docker Batch: Summer 2010 Team Size: 201 Status: Active" }, "stage": { "value": "series-c", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/", "quote": "Today, the company announced a $105 million Series C investment on a $2.1 billion valuation.", "confidence": "high", "note": "Last priced round found is the March 2022 Series C; no later priced round located as of check date." }, "accelerators": [ { "name": "Y Combinator", "batch": "Summer 2010", "source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/docker", "quote": "Docker Software development platform. SUMMER 2010 ACTIVE ... http://docker.com", "confidence": "high", "via": "research" } ], "total_funding_usd": { "value": 163000000, "status": "confirmed", "basis": "TechCrunch quoting the company: cumulative raise since Docker's 2019 restructuring (sale of its enterprise business, refocusing on the developer product now sold, including as Docker Cloud Sandboxes)", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/", "quote": "The company has raised $163 million in its current guise on that $2.1 billion valuation." }, "last_round": { "type": "series-c", "amount_usd": 105000000, "date": "2022-03", "leads": [ "Bain Capital Ventures" ], "status": "confirmed", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/", "quote": "Today’s investment was led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Atlassian Ventures, Citi Ventures, Vertex Ventures and Four Rivers, along with existing investors Benchmark Capital, Insight Partners and Tribe Capital." }, "investors": [ "Bain Capital Ventures", "Benchmark Capital", "Insight Partners", "Tribe Capital", "Atlassian Ventures", "Citi Ventures", "Vertex Ventures", "Four Rivers", "Greylock", "Kima Ventures", "Lightspeed Venture Partners", "Salesforce Ventures" ], "portfolio_listings": [ { "source": "Greylock", "company": "Docker", "batch": null, "how": "domain" }, { "source": "Kima Ventures", "company": "Docker", "batch": null, "how": "domain" }, { "source": "Lightspeed Venture Partners", "company": "Docker", "batch": null, "how": "domain" }, { "source": "Salesforce Ventures", "company": "Docker", "batch": null, "how": "domain" } ], "revenue": { "value_usd": 50000000, "kind": "ARR", "as_of": "2022-01", "status": "confirmed", "basis": "TechCrunch reporting company-disclosed ARR", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/", "quote": "A couple of months ago, the company announced that annual recurring revenue (ARR) had jumped 4x to over $50 million just two years after it decided to restructure." }, "employees": { "value": 201, "source": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/docker" }, "note": "YC hint confirmed: YC directory lists Docker (Summer 2010 batch, status Active, website http://docker.com), the same company/domain behind Docker Cloud Sandboxes. Docker was founded as dotCloud; it sold its enterprise business in 2019 and refocused on the developer product (Docker Desktop/Hub, and now Docker Cloud Sandboxes, launched 2026-09-24). Funding/revenue figures above are for Docker, Inc. as a whole (post-2019 restructuring), not broken out for the Cloud Sandboxes product specifically; no funding round or revenue figure has been found since March 2022 as of this check." }, "id": "docker-cloud-sandboxes", "name": "Docker Cloud Sandboxes", "url": "https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-cloud-sandboxes-start-on-your-laptop-finish-in-the-cloud/", "category": "agent-sandbox", "isolation": "vm", "modes": [ { "key": "on-demand", "label": "Pay-as-you-go fixed sizes (micro..xl), per second", "flags": [], "os": [ "linux" ], "regions": null, "gpu_only": false, "features": { "isolation": "vm" }, "pricing": "sizes", "vcpu_h": null, "ram_gib_h": null, "cpu_basis": "alloc", "ram_basis": "alloc", "active_floor": 0, "ram_per_vcpu": [ 2, 2 ], "ram_fixed_per_vcpu": 2, "vcpu_options": [ 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ], "min_vcpu": 1, "max_vcpu": 16, "max_ram_gib": 32, "sizes": [ { "name": "micro", "vcpu": 1, "ram_gib": 2, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.07, "month_cap": null }, { "name": "small", "vcpu": 2, "ram_gib": 4, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.14, "month_cap": null }, { "name": "medium", "vcpu": 4, "ram_gib": 8, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.28, "month_cap": null }, { "name": "large", "vcpu": 8, "ram_gib": 16, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.56, "month_cap": null }, { "name": "xl", "vcpu": 16, "ram_gib": 32, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 1.12, "month_cap": null } ], "pool_tiers": null, "requires_always_on": false, "always_on_month_per_instance": null, "commit_note": null, "min_billed_seconds": 0, "granularity_s": 1, "start_fee": 0, "boot_overhead_s": null, "multiplier": 1, "windows_vcpu_h": null, "gpu": null, "note": "Linear $0.07 per (1 vCPU + 2 GiB)-hour, metered per second while running (allocation, not utilisation). Stopped sandboxes (memory + filesystem preserved) pay no compute. TTL default 1 h, extendable to max 24 h from creation; default on-timeout = stop if resumable else delete. amd64 or arm64 'subject to account availability'." } ], "storage": { "included_disk_gib": null, "disk_gib_month": 0, "disk_billed_when_stopped": false, "snapshot_gib_month": 0, "paused_ram_billed": false }, "network": { "egress_free_gib": null, "egress_gib": 0, "ipv4_month": null, "ipv4_available": false }, "plans": [ { "name": "Docker Agentic Platform (pay-as-you-go)", "fee": 0, "flags": [], "fee_is_credit": false, "included_usd": 0, "per_seat": 0, "concurrency": 10, "max_session_h": 24, "max_vcpu": 16, "max_ram_gib": 32, "sizes_allowed": null, "note": "No recurring fee; billed monthly in arrears on a personal Docker account, separate from any Docker Personal/Pro/Team/Business subscription (which is not needed and not credited). Account eligibility: 'the pay-as-you-go plan, available on Docker Personal and Pro accounts' (launch blog); 'Subscribe using your personal Docker account, including if you belong to an organization. The subscription is attached to your personal account.' (billing page). No org/team-owned billing documented. Default quotas: 10 concurrent, 50 stored sandboxes, 100 volumes. Quota increases: process/price unpublished." }, { "name": "AI Governance (org policy add-on)", "fee": null, "flags": [ "sales", "addon" ], "fee_is_credit": null, "included_usd": null, "per_seat": null, "concurrency": null, "max_session_h": null, "max_vcpu": null, "max_ram_gib": null, "sizes_allowed": null, "note": "Organization-level sandbox policy governance, 'available on a separate paid subscription' (contact sales). Not a compute plan." } ], "extras": [ { "item": "Model inference", "price": "BYO key, billed by your model provider (not by Docker; credits don't cover it)" }, { "item": "Local Docker Sandboxes (sbx on your laptop)", "price": "Free, incl. commercial use; no Docker Desktop licence required" } ], "free": { "monthly_credit": 0, "one_time_credit": 25 }, "features": { "linux": true, "windows": false, "macos": false, "arm64": true, "gpu": false, "gpu_types": [], "snapshot": "mem", "pause_resume": true, "fork": true, "persistent_disk": true, "volumes": true, "auto_stop_idle": false, "max_session_h": 24, "custom_image": true, "docker_inside": true, "nested_virt": false, "root": true, "systemd": null, "browser": false, "desktop": false, "computer_use": false, "code_interpreter": false, "agent_harnesses": true, "ssh": true, "public_ipv4": false, "inbound_https": true, "custom_domain": null, "raw_tcp_inbound": null, "egress_allowlist": true, "static_egress_ip": false, "private_network": null, "self_host": false, "byoc": false, "open_source": false, "regions": [], "soc2": false, "hipaa": false, "sso": true, "lang_python": true, "lang_node": true, "lang_go": null, "lang_rust": null, "lang_java": null, "gpu_desktop": false, "credential_injection": true, "egress_http_rules": false, "wake_on_request": null, "live_resize": false, "fork_running": true, "memory_snapshot_fork": true, "webhooks": null, "scheduled_wakeups": null, "audit_logs": null, "eu_data_residency": false, "zero_data_retention": null, "scoped_api_keys": null, "spend_limits": null, "mcp_server": true, "isolation": "vm", "image_oci": true, "snapshot_auto": true, "snapshot_on_demand": true, "harness_api": false, "egress_allowlist_level": "both", "ingress_rules": true, "guest_firewall": true, "secret_proxy": "any-http", "volume_attach": true, "volume_shared": false, "anti_bot": false, "captcha_solving": false, "egress_ip_type": "datacenter", "own_agent_api": false, "usage_api": false }, "perf": { "cpu_runs_s": null, "cold_start_ms": null, "burst_tti_ms": null, "dax_s": null }, "perf_source": "No benchmark row: provider is not in ComputeSDK results or the HPC run (as of 2026-09-28). See research/perf-map.json.", "knobs": [ { "id": "ttl_tail", "label": "Billed time per session vs useful time (sandboxes left to hit their TTL instead of being stopped)", "kind": "select", "min": null, "max": null, "step": null, "default": 1, "unit": null, "options": [ { "value": 1, "label": "Stopped explicitly when done (×1)" }, { "value": 1.5, "label": "Often left running until TTL (×1.5)" }, { "value": 2, "label": "Always left until TTL (×2)" } ], "effect": "hours_factor", "modes": [ "on-demand" ], "why": "Compute bills per second until the sandbox is stopped; the default TTL is 1 h, so an agent that finishes in 20 min but never stops keeps billing until expiry. Factor values are illustrative, not published." } ], "caveats": [ "Launched 2026-09-24; only one published rate card. Enterprise/volume pricing not published.", "Default quota 10 concurrent sandboxes; higher concurrency process and cost unpublished (worked example of 50 concurrent needs a quota raise).", "Hard cap 24 h from creation per sandbox (renew-timeout cannot go beyond); long jobs must be stopped/restarted or recreated.", "Disk size per size tier not published (disk_gib null). Volumes are experimental and free; stopped-sandbox state storage free per 'Volumes, egress ... are free' and 'compute isn't billed while stopped'.", "'Always-on' sandbox configuration appears in quota docs but has no separate price; assumed same per-second rate.", "Standard one-time credit is $25 ($250 only for signups 2026-09-22..30). Credits expire 6 months after redemption; a valid credit card is required at signup. Credits cover sandbox compute only (setup, idle time and retries all count), not model-provider charges.", "Isolation: product page says MicroVM; hypervisor unnamed. Region(s) unpublished (regions []).", "Docker Pro/Team/Business subscription fees are separate and not needed; they do not include cloud sandbox credit.", "No benchmark data in benchmarks.json.", "All snapshots, including the one created when a sandbox is paused/stopped, are deleted after 7 days of non-use; stopped state is free but not durable storage.", "Volume-backed sandboxes can't be stopped (TTL action must be delete); volume data is snapshotted only on exit, last writer wins.", "Request rate limits exist and 'can vary by operation' but no numbers are published.", "24 h cap is per lifecycle: resuming a stopped sandbox starts a fresh lifecycle timer; accounts with always-on access can use the 'restart' timeout action (stop+resume cycles preserving memory) and keep their concurrency slot while stopped." ], "sources": [ "https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-cloud-sandboxes-start-on-your-laptop-finish-in-the-cloud/", "https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/", "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/cloud/usage/", "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/cloud/local-vs-cloud/", "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes-api/limits/", "https://docs.docker.com/agentic-platform/signup/", "https://docs.docker.com/subscription-billing/plans/docker-agentic-platform/", "https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-sandbox-pricing-unclear/151790", "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes-api/cookbook/expose-a-port-from-a-cloud-sandbox/", "https://docs.docker.com/reference/api/sandboxes/latest/schemas/EffectiveCoreLifecycle/" ], "fleet": { "default_max_instances": 10, "default_max_vcpu": null, "default_max_gpus": null, "raise": null, "raise_time_days": null, "verification": null, "tiers": "Default 10 concurrent, 50 stored; per-account overrides may differ.", "notes": "Official API limits give default 10 concurrent, 50 stored sandboxes; stopped releases concurrency unless always-on, but retains stored count. Docs warn accounts can differ and instruct confirmation with Docker before capacity-dependent work. No explicit numeric higher tier or quota-increase procedure/turnaround found.", "sources": [ "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes-api/limits/" ], "researched": "2026-09-28" }, "audit_2026_09_29": { "applied": 11, "source": "checked against the provider's live pricing and docs pages", "reviewed": 3 }, "feature_evidence": { "wake_on_request": { "value": null, "source": "https://docs.docker.com/reference/api/sandboxes/latest/schemas/EffectiveCoreLifecycle/", "quote": "auto_resume is the configured authenticated auto-resume setting; absent means unknown. Snapshot readback preserves the capture-time value, not current support or a resume guarantee.", "note": "Unknown, was true. The API has an autoResume lifecycle field but no page says what triggers it or that an HTTP request to a published port wakes a stopped sandbox. Usage page documents resume only via attach or a named run ('A detached run with --name reuses the named sandbox and starts it if stopped'); expose-a-port cookbook says only 'Stopping the sandbox does not remove its port publications.'", "checked": "2026-10-14" }, "snapshot_auto": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/cloud/usage/", "quote": "A cloud sandbox expires after one hour by default. On expiration, the service stops sandboxes that can be resumed and deletes the rest.", "note": "Trigger: TTL expiry (default 1 h, max 24 h from creation) with on-timeout 'stop' (the default for resumable sandboxes). Stop preserves memory AND filesystem ('Stop a cloud sandbox while preserving its memory and filesystem'; API: 'a backend advertising memory preservation hibernates it'), resumed via sbx --cloud attach or a named run ('A detached run with --name reuses the named sandbox and starts it if stopped'); no documented request-triggered wake (see wake_on_request). No idle-timeout trigger: the Console says a sandbox 'runs until you pause or delete it' or its timer expires. Always-on accounts get 'restart' = automatic stop/resume cycles preserving memory. Volume-backed sandboxes cannot be stopped (TTL action must be delete). Stopped-state snapshots are free but deleted after 7 days unused (per card).", "checked": "2026-10-14" }, "snapshot_on_demand": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes-api/cookbook/snapshot-and-fork-a-sandbox/", "quote": "Save a sandbox's state so you can start another sandbox from the same point later. A snapshot is separate from its source sandbox; restoring it creates a new sandbox with its own identity.", "note": "API CreateSnapshot 'checkpoints a running sandbox; a stopped source is rejected'. captureMode 'disk' or 'all' ('all captures memory and disk and requires memory-capture support'). RestoreSnapshot 'forks a new sandbox from a snapshot' (fork, source untouched). CLI equivalent: sbx --cloud template save