Create a Daytona sandbox and run code in it with the Python or TypeScript SDK (API key auth, first execution)
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Documented steps
Create a Daytona account and generate an API key from the Daytona dashboard API Keys page; copy the key immediately because only masked values are shown afterwards.
Install the SDK: Python `pip install daytona`; TypeScript via the npm package documented on the TypeScript SDK reference page.
Set the key as environment variable `DAYTONA_API_KEY`. Optionally set `DAYTONA_API_URL` (default `https://app.daytona.io/api`) and `DAYTONA_TARGET` (region, e.g. `us` or `eu`).
For async Python use `from daytona import AsyncDaytona` with `async with AsyncDaytona(config) as daytona:`.
Create the sandbox with `daytona.create()` (sync) or `await daytona.create()` (async). Sandboxes default to 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM and 3GiB disk.
Run a code snippet statelessly: Python `response = sandbox.process.code_run('print("Hello, World!")')`; TypeScript `await sandbox.process.codeRun(code, params?, timeout?)`. Pass `params=CodeRunParams(argv=['Daytona'], env={'FOO':'BAR'})` to supply argv and environment variables.
Run a shell command instead: Python `sandbox.process.exec('ls -la', cwd='workspace/src', env={...}, timeout=30)`; TypeScript `await sandbox.process.executeCommand(command, cwd?, env?, timeout?)`.
Read `response.result` for output and check `response.exit_code` explicitly — a non-zero exit code does not always raise.
Clean up with `sandbox.delete()` when the work is done. Official docs: https://www.daytona.io/docs/en, https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/sandboxes, https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/process-code-execution, https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/python-sdk
Known gotchas
The API key is displayed once at creation; afterwards the dashboard shows only masked values and you must generate a new key.
Default sandbox resources are small (1 vCPU / 1GB RAM / 3GiB disk) — size explicitly for build-heavy or ML workloads.
`sandbox.process.exec()` defaults to a 10 second timeout when none is given, which silently kills longer commands.
A non-zero `exit_code` is not always raised as an exception; check `response.exit_code` rather than relying on try/except alone.
API calls are rate limited per account tier — Tier 1 allows 300 sandbox-creation requests/min and 10,000 general requests/min, rising to 600/50,000 at Tier 4; exceeding these returns HTTP 429.
Region is chosen with the `target` parameter at client init, and each region carries its own resource limits.
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