comparison
Where to run a coding agent
The honest field: hosted agents, your own VPS, sandbox APIs and reachpad. What each one is, and who each one is right for.
We sell one of these, and it is not the right answer for everyone reading. Each page below says where the other tool wins, because a comparison that does not is worth nothing to you and we would not believe it either.
Head to head
- Hosted agentsreachpad vs Claude Code on the webAnthropic runs Claude in a cloud VM built around a GitHub repo. reachpad gives you the machine. What that changes.
- Do it yourselfreachpad vs tmux on your own VPStmux keeps a process alive through a disconnect. What it does not do is keep the machine, the agents, or your attention.
- Different categoryreachpad vs an agent sandbox APIE2B, Daytona, Modal, Blaxel and the rest sell sandboxes your application creates. reachpad sells a workspace you sit in. When to reach for which.
Also worth knowing about
- Remote Control
Connects the Claude app to a Claude Code session running on your own machine, so you steer it from a phone while the work stays local.
Right for you if: You want your own machine, your own config, and a way to check on it from somewhere else. It needs that machine awake.
- Murmell
A shared browser canvas of terminal windows, several agents to a project, on machines they run. The workspace is disposable and the work is pushed to a private GitHub repository before a machine goes away.
Right for you if: Watching several agents at once with someone else looking at the same screen, on work that lives in a repository.
- Happycapy
A chat-shaped agent computer: an isolated cloud sandbox behind a conversation, with many models and a store of prepackaged skills.
Right for you if: Handing over a task and getting a result back, when you would rather not see a terminal at all.
- GitHub Codespaces
A dev container attached to a repository, built for a person in an editor, stopped on an idle timeout.
Right for you if: A reproducible checkout of one repo for a human to work in. Agents run in it, but nothing about it is built around one.
And reachpad
A Linux workspace you keep, driven from a CLI, whose disk and memory are sealed to object storage: the machine underneath can go away and your session resumes mid-run rather than from a fresh boot. Any agent, your own accounts, your own git remotes. 1,000 one-time trial credits, 16 hours 40 minutes of active workspace time are shared across up to 10 workspaces. The quickstart is five steps.
Claims about other products are structural, taken from their own documentation, and last checked on 12 August 2026. Got one wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.