{ "features_resolved": { "snapshot_any": true, "snapshot_mem": false, "fork": true, "pause_resume": false, "persistent_disk": false, "whole_disk": null, "persist_scope": null, "volumes": false, "auto_stop_idle": true, "long_sessions": true, "custom_image": true, "image_snapshot": true, "image_oci": false, "vm_isolation": true, "docker_inside": false, "nested_virt": false, "root": null, "systemd": false, "browser": true, "desktop": true, "computer_use": true, "code_interpreter": false, "browser_control": null, "desktop_control": true, "browser_and_desktop": true, "anti_bot": false, "captcha_solving": false, "residential_ip": false, "agent_harnesses": false, "ssh": true, "public_ipv4": false, "inbound_https": false, "custom_domain": null, "raw_tcp_inbound": null, "egress_allowlist": false, "open_internet": null, "static_egress_ip": true, "private_network": null, "self_host": false, "byoc": false, "open_source": false, "soc2": null, "hipaa": null, "sso": false, "gpu": false, "arm64": true, "windows": false, "macos": true, "lang_python": true, "lang_node": true, "lang_go": null, "lang_rust": null, "lang_java": null, "gpu_desktop": false, "credential_injection": null, "egress_http_rules": false, "wake_on_request": false, "live_resize": false, "fork_running": true, "memory_snapshot_fork": false, "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": false, "usage_api": false, "snapshot_auto": false, "snapshot_on_demand": true, "harness_api": false, "own_agent_api": false, "fast_boot": null, "strong_isolation": true, "ingress_rules": true, "guest_firewall": false, "secret_proxy": false, "secret_proxy_any": false, "volume_attach": false, "volume_shared": false, "sidecar": null, "fuse": true, "kernel_features": true, "burst": null }, "company": { "id": "use-computer", "checked": "2026-09-30", "company": "use.computer (Daytona)", "ownership": { "value": "subsidiary", "parent": "Daytona (Daytona Technologies / daytonaio)", "source": "https://pypi.org/project/daytona-use-computer/", "quote": "Author: use.computer ... pip install daytona-use-computer" }, "stage": { "value": "subsidiary", "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "TypeScript (@daytona/use-computer) exposes the same surface", "confidence": "medium", "note": "use.computer's SDKs are published under Daytona's own npm org (@daytona) and PyPI namespace (daytona-use-computer); its listed npm maintainers (mdzaja, gdraganic) are members of the daytonaio GitHub org, and support is routed to support@daytona.io. Treated as a Daytona product line (macOS sandboxes) rather than an independently-funded company; funding figures below are Daytona's company-level rounds, not a separate use.computer raise, which could not be found." }, "accelerators": [], "total_funding_usd": { "value": 31000000, "status": "confirmed", "basis": "Sum of Daytona's disclosed rounds per Daytona's own press releases: $2M pre-seed (Nov 2023) + $5M seed (Jun 2024) + $24M Series A (reported early 2026)", "source": "https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/daytona-raises-24m-series-a-to-give-every-agent-a-computer", "quote": "Daytona has raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark Capital to build the infrastructure that makes this possible." }, "last_round": { "type": "series-a", "amount_usd": 24000000, "date": "2026-02", "leads": [ "FirstMark Capital" ], "status": "confirmed", "source": "https://www.daytona.io/dotfiles/daytona-raises-24m-series-a-to-give-every-agent-a-computer", "quote": "Daytona has raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark Capital to build the infrastructure that makes this possible. Matt Turck, General Partner at FirstMark, joins the board." }, "investors": [ "FirstMark Capital", "Upfront Ventures", "Pace Capital", "Darkmode", "E2VC", "Datadog (strategic)", "Figma Ventures (strategic)", "Gorkem Yurtseven (Fal)", "Theo Browne (T3 Chat)", "Eno Reyes (Factory.ai)", "Nikita Shamgunov (Neon)" ], "portfolio_listings": [], "revenue": { "value": null, "status": "unknown" }, "employees": { "value": null, "source": "" }, "note": "use.computer is a macOS-VM computer-use sandbox product whose SDKs (PyPI daytona-use-computer, npm @daytona/use-computer) are published under Daytona's own namespaces and whose listed npm maintainers are members of the daytonaio GitHub org; support requests are routed to support@daytona.io. Its own Terms of Service reference a distinct legal entity, 'Crucible Fund LLC' (effective 2026-06-03), which could not be independently reconciled with Daytona's corporate entity in the time available, so the ownership/parent link is medium- rather than high-confidence. No use.computer-specific funding round, valuation, or revenue figure was found; figures above are Daytona's company-level, publicly announced rounds (pre-seed $2M Nov 2023, seed $5M Jun 2024 led by Upfront Ventures, Series A $24M led by FirstMark Capital, reported ~Feb 2026)." }, "id": "use-computer", "name": "use.computer", "url": "https://use.computer/", "category": "macos", "isolation": "apple-vm", "modes": [ { "key": "reservation", "label": "Reserved M4 Mac mini, priced per macOS VM slot (2 VMs per Mac)", "flags": [], "os": [ "macos" ], "gpu_only": false, "features": { "snapshot": "fs", "fork": true, "computer_use": true, "desktop": true }, "pricing": "sizes", "vcpu_h": null, "ram_gib_h": null, "cpu_basis": "alloc", "ram_basis": "alloc", "active_floor": 0, "ram_per_vcpu": [ null, null ], "ram_fixed_per_vcpu": null, "vcpu_options": null, "min_vcpu": null, "max_vcpu": 10, "max_ram_gib": 16, "sizes": [ { "name": "split: macOS VM slot = half of a reserved M4 Mac mini (5 CPU / 8 GiB)", "vcpu": 5, "ram_gib": 8, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.45, "month_cap": null }, { "name": "whole: one VM per reserved Mac (10 CPU / 16 GiB)", "vcpu": 10, "ram_gib": 16, "disk_gib": null, "hour": 0.9, "month_cap": null } ], "pool_tiers": null, "requires_always_on": false, "always_on_month_per_instance": null, "commit_note": "Reservation = N Mac minis x X hours (X >= 24), paid up front. Sandboxes inside a reservation are free to create/destroy; the Macs return to the pool when end_at passes.", "min_billed_seconds": 86400, "granularity_s": 3600, "start_fee": 0, "boot_overhead_s": null, "multiplier": 1, "windows_vcpu_h": null, "gpu": null, "note": "Homepage: \"$0.90/hr per Mac\", \"reserve for 24 hours or more, up to 2 VMs at a time per Mac\". Docs: each Mac mini is a stock M4 16 GB / 512 GB SSD and the 2 VMs get \"4 cores + 8 GB each\". Encoded per VM slot at $0.45/h (= $0.90/2), which assumes VMs are paired; an odd VM count pays for an idle slot. Per-VM disk share not published. min 24 h per reservation (Apple SLA). Hourly granularity after the 24 h minimum is confirmed (OpenAPI: integer hours, minimum 24); an active reservation can be shortened (end >= 24 h after start and >= 5 min from now) with the remaining-time delta returned as account credit, or grown pro rata. 2026-09-28 (patch v3-computer-use): OpenAPI VMLayout: split (default) = two 5 CPU / 8 GiB VMs, whole = one 10 CPU / 16 GiB VM (legacy whole may keep 12 GiB), same per-Mac price. 24 h minimum applies per Mac reservation, not per VM creation.", "regions": null } ], "storage": { "included_disk_gib": null, "disk_gib_month": null, "disk_billed_when_stopped": false, "snapshot_gib_month": null, "paused_ram_billed": false }, "network": { "egress_free_gib": null, "egress_gib": null, "ipv4_month": null, "ipv4_available": false }, "plans": [ { "name": "Pay-as-you-go reservations", "fee": 0, "flags": [], "fee_is_credit": false, "included_usd": 0, "per_seat": 0, "concurrency": null, "max_session_h": null, "max_vcpu": null, "max_ram_gib": null, "sizes_allowed": null, "note": "No plan fee. Production fleet \"currently has 28 Mac minis live\" (docs), i.e. at most ~56 concurrent VMs unless more are added." } ], "free": { "monthly_credit": 0, "one_time_credit": 100 }, "features": { "linux": false, "windows": false, "macos": true, "arm64": true, "gpu": false, "gpu_types": [], "snapshot": "fs", "pause_resume": false, "fork": true, "persistent_disk": false, "volumes": null, "auto_stop_idle": true, "max_session_h": null, "custom_image": true, "docker_inside": false, "nested_virt": false, "root": null, "systemd": false, "browser": true, "desktop": true, "computer_use": true, "code_interpreter": false, "agent_harnesses": false, "ssh": true, "public_ipv4": false, "inbound_https": false, "custom_domain": null, "raw_tcp_inbound": null, "egress_allowlist": false, "static_egress_ip": true, "private_network": null, "self_host": false, "byoc": false, "open_source": false, "regions": null, "soc2": null, "hipaa": null, "sso": false, "lang_python": true, "lang_node": true, "lang_go": null, "lang_rust": null, "lang_java": null, "gpu_desktop": false, "credential_injection": null, "egress_http_rules": false, "wake_on_request": false, "live_resize": false, "fork_running": true, "memory_snapshot_fork": false, "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": false, "browser_control": null, "desktop_control": true, "anti_bot": false, "captcha_solving": false, "egress_ip_type": "static-datacenter", "ip_note": "No browser-automation API, stealth, CAPTCHA or proxy options documented; browsers (e.g. Safari) are driven via the macOS desktop/shell API.", "snapshot_auto": false, "snapshot_on_demand": true, "harness_api": false, "ingress_rules": true, "secret_proxy": false, "volume_attach": false, "volume_shared": false, "isolation": "apple-vm", "image_oci": false, "own_agent_api": false, "guest_firewall": false, "max_session_unlimited": true, "usage_api": false }, "perf": { "cpu_runs_s": null, "cold_start_ms": 1000, "burst_tti_ms": null, "dax_s": null }, "knobs": [], "caveats": [ "Rate resolved 2026-09-29: the live API config that drives the dashboard price calculator returns hourly_rate_cents 90 ($0.90/h per Mac, matching the homepage); the dashboard computes total = Macs x hours x rate. The docs' $1.91/h (Quick start, Lifecycle, llms-full.txt) is stale text.", "Billing boundary is the Mac reservation, not the sandbox: you pay 24 h minimum per Mac even for a 10-minute session. Encoded as min_billed_seconds 86400 per VM slot; reserving continuously for the month (730 h) is cheaper than re-reserving daily only when sessions span >~20 h/day.", "VM slot price assumes both VM slots of each Mac are used; 1 VM per Mac costs $0.90/h.", "VM shape by layout (OpenAPI VMLayout): split 5 CPU / 8 GiB x2 per Mac (default) or whole 10 CPU / 16 GiB x1; larger workloads cannot run. Docs prose says 4 cores + 8 GB per VM (older text).", "cold_start_ms 1000 = vendor claim \"<1s warm boot\" on pre-booted reserved Macs, not measured.", "Snapshot storage, egress and regions not published (null). Support contact is support@daytona.io; Daytona routes macOS sandboxes here.", "Licensing: Apple permits Mac leasing for \"Permitted Developer Services\"; general computer-use agent workloads are a grey zone. Apple macOS SLA: leasing a Mac requires a minimum lease of 24 consecutive hours with sole use by the lessee, and allows at most 2 additional macOS VMs per Mac.", "Idle VMs (~2 min without HTTP/SSH/VNC) are reaped and replaced by a fresh clone; the Mac reservation keeps billing. Snapshots are portable disk images, no memory resume. Docs rate $1.91/h per Mac re-confirmed on docs.use.computer/docs/concepts 2026-09-28; homepage $0.90 could not be re-rendered this pass, so the conflict stands (at $1.91 the bill is 2.12x).", "Payment is prepaid only: reservations are paid from a credit balance or Stripe checkout; credit packs $1-$1,000. No postpaid/overage; if credits are insufficient the reservation (or edit) is refused (HTTP 402).", "Terms (Crucible Fund LLC, effective 2026-06-03): fees are billed up front for the full committed period and are non-refundable, including unused reservations and early termination; promotional credits may be modified or withdrawn at any time.", "VM layout 'split' (default, two 5 CPU / 8 GiB VMs) or 'whole' (one 10 CPU / 16 GiB VM) at the same per-Mac price; layout changes need zero active sandboxes." ], "sources": [ "https://use.computer/", "https://docs.use.computer/", "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS27.pdf", "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts" ], "fleet": { "default_max_instances": null, "default_max_vcpu": null, "default_max_gpus": null, "raise": "Self-serve reservations are capped by currently free Macs (API returns 409 reservation_capacity_unavailable); API-key (SDK) reservations are limited to 1 Mac each; bulk fleets or long-term capacity by email request from the dashboard.", "raise_time_days": null, "verification": "Signup provides $100 starter credit with no card.", "tiers": null, "notes": "Reservations are physical Macs for at least 24 hours, each allowing 2 simultaneous sandbox VMs. No account-wide reservation limit verified. Do not confuse provider inventory or per-host two-VM licence limit with account quota; stock and credits constrain fleets.", "sources": [ "https://docs.use.computer/docs/quickstart", "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts" ], "researched": "2026-09-28" }, "audit_2026_09_29": { "applied": 5, "source": "checked against the provider's live pricing and docs pages", "reviewed": 2 }, "feature_evidence": { "snapshot_auto": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "When you `delete()` (or your sandbox times out), the gateway throws away the dirty VM and clones a fresh one in the background.", "note": "Idle-reaped (ephemeral=true, ~2 min idle) or timed-out sandboxes and all sandboxes at reservation end_at are destroyed, not saved. State survives only via an explicit snapshot.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "snapshot_on_demand": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/sdk", "quote": "macOS snapshots are portable disk deltas. When you create one, the gateway pulls the snapshot artifact from the source Mac Mini; when you launch from it, the gateway pushes that artifact to whichever reserved Mini claims the new VM.", "note": "POST /v1/sandboxes/{id}/snapshots on a running sandbox ('Preserves disk state'); disk only, no memory. New sandboxes boot from it via create(snapshot=version) on any reserved Mac (template/fork, homepage: 'Snapshot a sandbox. Fork it instantly.'). Must match reservation layout and base image.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "harness_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://pypi.org/project/daytona-use-computer/", "quote": "The `agents` extra installs the agent runtime plus model-provider dependencies (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, LiteLLM).", "note": "The prebuilt computer-use agents (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OSWorld/generic via LiteLLM) run client-side in your Python process and drive the VM through the mouse/keyboard/screenshot API; no API to start/stream/resume an agent harness (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) inside the VM. Trajectory replay API (POST /v1/me/tasks/{id}/replay) re-executes recorded human actions, not an agent.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "ingress_rules": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/sdk", "quote": "`vnc_url` from create or snapshot restore contains a sandbox-scoped viewer token, not your account key. The link expires within one hour, or earlier at the reservation's `end_at`", "note": "No public ports/preview URLs. Access only through the authenticated gateway: SSH via a WebSocket proxy to sshd (API-key auth; supports -L port forwarding), VNC via expiring sandbox-scoped tokens ('Anyone holding the link can view and control that sandbox until it expires'). No IP allowlists or custom port exposure. Note PyPI README still warns vnc_url contains the account key (older SDK text).", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "secret_proxy": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/sdk", "quote": "sign into accounts (email, GitHub, a web app)", "note": "No secret store or credential-injection proxy. Docs recommend signing into accounts by hand over VNC and baking the logins into a disk snapshot, i.e. credentials live inside the VM.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "volume_attach": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "`disk_gib` must be the image's disk size: disks are not resized at create.", "note": "Full OpenAPI spec has no volume/mount endpoints; storage is the VM image disk on the Mac's 512 GB SSD; files move via upload/download APIs.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "volume_shared": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "displayWindows", "note": "No volume/mount endpoints exist in the full OpenAPI spec at all (grep for volume/mount/shared returns nothing); storage is the VM image disk on the Mac's local SSD. Since there is no volume concept at all, there cannot be a shared-volume feature. Matches card's own feature_evidence for volume_attach.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "isolation": { "value": "apple-vm", "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "The macOS warm pool is built on a fork of lume, the VM orchestrator from cua... the Sequoia base image and the initial VZ plumbing came from there.", "note": "Apple Virtualization.framework (VZ) macOS VMs on dedicated M4 Mac minis; card already sets this.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "image_oci": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "disk_gib must be the image's disk size: disks are not resized at create.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — sandboxes boot from the provider's own macOS VM images/snapshots (VZ disk images), no Docker/OCI image import; card's custom_image:true refers to macOS snapshot images, not OCI.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "anti_bot": { "value": false, "source": "https://use.computer/", "quote": "Infrastructure for agents that use computers. Instant macOS sandboxes on dedicated Apple M4 Mac minis, driven via Python and TypeScript SDKs.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — no stealth/fingerprinting features documented; product is a raw macOS computer-use sandbox, not a browser-automation/anti-detect product.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "captcha_solving": { "value": false, "source": "https://use.computer/", "quote": "Infrastructure for agents that use computers. Instant macOS sandboxes on dedicated Apple M4 Mac minis, driven via Python and TypeScript SDKs.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — no CAPTCHA-solving service documented; browsers are just apps run inside the macOS VM via the desktop/shell API.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "fork_running": { "value": true, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "Captures a macOS sandbox as a snapshot. Preserves disk state. Snapshots... POST /v1/sandboxes/{sandboxID}/snapshots", "note": "Snapshot creation (the mechanism behind fork) is called on a running sandbox without stopping/pausing it first; disk-only, not memory.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "pause_resume": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "When you delete() (or your sandbox times out), the gateway throws away the dirty VM and clones a fresh one in the background.", "note": "No pause/resume API; lifecycle is create/delete plus an idle timeout that destroys the sandbox (state kept only via explicit snapshot), not a pause/resume of a live VM.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "wake_on_request": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "The server defaults new sandboxes on a reserved Mac to the reservation lifetime... Set ephemeral: true to opt into the two-minute idle timeout.", "note": "Idle sandboxes are destroyed (and a fresh warm VM is cloned for the next caller) rather than put to sleep and auto-woken by an incoming request; there is no sleeping-machine-wakes-on-traffic mechanism.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "live_resize": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "Any other size resizes a warm VM and boots it, which takes as long as a macOS boot (a minute or two); the response says boot: \"cold\".", "note": "Changing CPU/RAM requires rebooting the VM (cold boot), not a live in-place resize of a running machine.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "own_agent_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "Replay boots a fresh sandbox, runs the setup script, and re-executes the recorded actions. A live VNC link lets you watch the run; if the task has a grader, the reward is reported when the replay completes.", "note": "The Trajectories feature records human demonstrations and replays the exact recorded actions (no autonomous goal-driven agent); the optional SDK computer-use agents run client-side using third-party model APIs, not a first-party hosted task-agent API.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "mcp_server": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "Both SDKs (Python on PyPI, TypeScript on npm) expose the same macOS sandbox surface — create() for macOS sandboxes, plus mouse, keyboard, screenshot, exec, files, recording, and the UI tree.", "note": "No MCP server is mentioned anywhere in the docs, SDK READMEs, or OpenAPI spec; only Python/TypeScript SDKs and a raw HTTP API are offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "lang_python": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "The Python SDK is published on PyPI. pip install daytona-use-computer", "note": "First-party Python SDK for driving sandboxes.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "lang_node": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "TypeScript (@daytona/use-computer) exposes the same surface; see SDK & API.", "note": "First-party TypeScript/Node SDK, published on npm.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "public_ipv4": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "VNC and SSH WebSocket proxies.", "note": "Access to a sandbox is only via the gateway's authenticated SSH/VNC WebSocket proxies; no public IPv4 address is assigned to the sandbox itself.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "inbound_https": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "With WebSocket upgrade headers, upgrades and bridges binary frames to the sandbox VM's sshd (port 22)... VNC connection metadata for the sandbox.", "note": "No feature to expose arbitrary HTTP(S) ports/URLs on the sandbox; only SSH and VNC are proxied through the gateway with short-lived tokens.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_http_rules": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "macOS Computer Use API — create sandboxes, control input, take screenshots, record sessions.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — the API surface is sandbox lifecycle + input/screenshot control; no HTTP method/path-level egress rules exist.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "guest_firewall": { "value": false, "source": "https://use.computer/", "quote": "Instant macOS sandboxes on dedicated Apple M4 Mac minis", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — the guest OS is macOS (uses pf, not nftables/iptables); no Linux guest firewall applies, and no firewall control is documented.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "open_source": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "The macOS warm pool is built on a fork of lume, the VM orchestrator from cua... Thanks to the cua team for open-sourcing it.", "note": "The core use.computer gateway/product itself is closed-source; it is built on top of the open-source `lume` VM orchestrator (from the cua project), which is not the same as the product being open source.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "eu_data_residency": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "Reservations are physical Macs for at least 24 hours", "note": "No regions/data-residency feature documented anywhere; fleet is a fixed pool of Mac minis (docs: '28 Mac minis live') with no region selection, so EU residency cannot be guaranteed.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "max_session_h": { "value": "none", "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "The server defaults new sandboxes on a reserved Mac to the reservation lifetime when the create request omits ephemeral: they live until you delete them or the reservation reaches end_at.", "note": "A non-ephemeral sandbox runs until you delete it or the (extendable) reservation ends; there is no fixed per-session hour cap distinct from the reservation itself.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "persistent_disk": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "When you `delete()` (or your sandbox times out), the gateway throws away the dirty VM and clones a fresh one in the background. The next caller already has a warm VM waiting.", "note": "Idle-reaped (~2 min idle) or timed-out sandboxes and all sandboxes at reservation end_at are destroyed; disk does not survive stop/pause automatically. Only an explicit snapshot (disk-only, via POST /v1/sandboxes/{id}/snapshots) preserves files, and restoring it creates a new sandbox rather than resuming the old one in place. Default on timeout/idle/end_at is delete; opt in to snapshot to keep files.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "memory_snapshot_fork": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "macOS snapshots are portable disk deltas.", "note": "Snapshots (the only fork/restore mechanism) are disk-only deltas; no memory or running-process state is captured or restored. Confirmed also by the card's own caveat: 'Snapshots are portable disk images, no memory resume.'", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "docker_inside": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "displayWindows / List windows (accessibility tree)", "note": "Full OpenAPI surface (auth, sandboxes, snapshots, display/vnc, ssh, exec, trajectories, credits) has no Docker/container-runtime endpoints, and no docs page (llms-full.txt, concepts, sdk, quickstart) mentions Docker or container support. The product is a macOS desktop-automation VM, not a container host; not offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "nested_virt": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "Choose the Mac model when reserving with `mac_model`: `m4` (the default; 10 cores, 16 GiB) or `m4-pro` (12 or more cores, 24 GiB).", "note": "No mention anywhere in docs/OpenAPI of nested virtualization, /dev/kvm, or running VMs/emulators inside the sandbox. The sandbox is itself a macOS VM on Apple's Virtualization framework on M4/M4 Pro silicon; nested virtualization support is not advertised or documented. Not offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "agent_harnesses": { "value": false, "source": "https://pypi.org/project/daytona-use-computer/", "quote": "The `agents` extra installs the agent runtime plus model-provider dependencies (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, LiteLLM).", "note": "Those are client-side computer-use agent loops (Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini/OSWorld via LiteLLM) that drive the VM's mouse/keyboard/screenshot API from your own Python process; no coding-agent harness (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) is preinstalled or offered as a template inside the VM. Not offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "gpu": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "A reservation is a contract for N Mac minis for X hours. You pay up front (hourly rate x N x X): $0.90/hr per M4 Mac, $1.97/hr per M4 Pro Mac.", "note": "The only offered machines are M4 and M4 Pro Mac mini VM slots; no GPU instance type exists in docs, pricing, or the OpenAPI catalog. Outside the product's scope (macOS desktop-automation VMs, not a GPU compute cloud).", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "windows": { "value": false, "source": "https://use.computer/", "quote": "Instant macOS sandboxes for computer-use agents.", "note": "The product is exclusively macOS VMs on Apple Mac mini hardware (Apple's macOS software license/SLA governs the whole offering); no Windows machine type is offered anywhere in docs, pricing, or the API. Outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "self_host": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "So use.computer sells reservations: you reserve one or more physical Mac minis for at least 24 hours, and then create/destroy as many sandboxes as you need inside that reservation.", "note": "The service is delivered only as a hosted reservation on use.computer's own fleet of physical Mac minis; no self-hosted/on-prem deployment option, downloadable server, or open-source core is mentioned anywhere in docs, OpenAPI, or the homepage. Not offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "byoc": { "value": false, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/docs/concepts", "quote": "Activation binds physical Mac mini IPs to your reservation.", "note": "Machines are specific physical Apple Mac minis owned/leased by use.computer under Apple's macOS hardware-leasing terms; there is no mechanism to deploy the service into a customer's own cloud account (Apple's SLA in fact requires the lessor to control the hardware). No BYOC option is mentioned anywhere in docs, pricing, or OpenAPI. Not offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_ip_type": { "value": "static-datacenter", "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "A reservation is a contract for N Mac minis for X hours... Activation binds physical Mac mini IPs to your reservation.", "note": "Each dedicated physical Mac mini's IP is bound exclusively to your reservation for its duration (>=24h, extendable); VM egress goes out through that dedicated host's datacenter IP, fixed for the life of the reservation, not a shared/rotating pool. Derived from the reservation/isolation model, since no separate networking page documents NAT/egress IP behavior explicitly.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_allowlist": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "macOS Computer Use API — create sandboxes, control input, take screenshots, record sessions.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — the full OpenAPI surface (auth, sandboxes, snapshots, display/vnc, ssh, exec, trajectories, credits) has no egress/allowlist/security-group endpoints, and no docs page mentions outbound traffic controls. The product is a macOS desktop-automation VM rental, not a network-security product.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "static_egress_ip": { "value": true, "source": "https://docs.use.computer/llms-full.txt", "quote": "Activation binds physical Mac mini IPs to your reservation.", "note": "The physical Mac mini (and its IP) is dedicated solely to your reservation for its whole duration; outbound traffic from VMs on that Mac therefore uses a fixed host IP for as long as the reservation lasts (it is not guaranteed to be the same IP across separate reservations).", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "sso": { "value": false, "source": "https://use.computer/static/app.js?v=v0.1.1287", "quote": "init() loads /v1/config, boots Supabase auth, wires the router, and renders the first route.", "note": "Account login is handled via Supabase auth (their own login/settings views); no SAML/OIDC single-sign-on option for customer organizations is mentioned anywhere in docs, OpenAPI, or the SPA router views (login, reservations, reservation, checkout, settings only).", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "usage_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://api.use.computer/openapi.yaml", "quote": "GET /v1/me/billing endpoint returns user's credit balance, ledger entries, and active metered usage including per-sandbox usage with charged_cents, but requires UserJWT (browser session), not API keys. The billing boundary is the Mac reservation (24h minimum), not individual sandboxes.", "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: yes; The /v1/me/billing endpoint shows per-sandbox usage with charged_cents (cost), but it requires browser authentication (UserJWT), not programmatic API key access (uc_live_* keys). The customer SDK/API keys cannot access per-sandbox billing via any endpoint (GET /v1/sandboxes/{id} returns no cost data). Billing is actually at the reservation level, not per-sandbox. A platform billing system cannot programmatically retrieve per-customer or per-sandbox usage via API key or CLI.", "confidence": "high", "checked": "2026-10-01" } }, "locations": [], "locations_source": "https://docs.use.computer/", "locations_quote": "Reservations are physical Macs for at least 24 hours, each allowing 2 simultaneous sandbox VMs. No location/region selection documented.", "locations_checked": "2026-10-01" }