Daytona provides managed development sandboxes with fast, snapshot-based startup. Phoenix uses Daytona as a hosted backend for both Python and TypeScript code evaluators that need stronger isolation than the local sandboxes, longer maximum timeouts, or runtime dependency installation.
Configure#
- Sign up at daytona.io and generate an API key.
- Add it as
DAYTONA_API_KEYfrom Settings → Sandboxes.
See Settings → Sandboxes → Daytona for full configuration details and Sandbox Backends for self-hosting setup.

