CapabilitiesWays to drive it
MCP server
An official MCP server, so an AI assistant can create and use sandboxes itself.
Short answer: 5 of 16 providers offer it fully: Blaxel, Daytona, Lizard, Runtime and Sandboxer. With a catch: E2B. Checked 29 October 2026.
Who offers it
Part of Ways to drive it, which explains why it matters.
Fully: Blaxel, Daytona, Lizard, Runtime and Sandboxer. With a catch: E2B. Not at all: Agent 37, Boat, boxd, Cloudflare Sandbox, InstaBox, Modal, Morph, Sprites, Tensorlake and Vercel Sandbox.
- BlaxelYes
Every sandbox exposes its own MCP server for files, processes, ports and previews.
docs-confirmed “Every Blaxel sandbox exposes a built-in MCP server so agents can operate the sandbox using tool calls for files, processes, ports, and previews.” Source
- DaytonaYes
A first-party MCP server with sandbox, file, git, execution and computer-use tools.
docs-confirmed “daytona mcp init claude” Source
- LizardYes
A hosted MCP server that creates sandboxes, runs commands and reads or writes files.
docs-confirmed “Lizard MCP lets ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP clients manage your Lizard projects: create sandboxes, run commands and read or write files in them” Source
- RuntimeYes
A hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint plus a local stdio bridge.
docs-confirmed “The endpoint is `https://api.withruntime.com/mcp`, over MCP Streamable HTTP.” Source
- SandboxerYes
Hosted and local servers, with 18 tools and session handoff.
docs-confirmed “Hosted at `https://sandboxer.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP). Nothing to install.” Source
- E2BWith a catch
The catch: E2B's MCP support runs other companies' tools inside a sandbox; nothing of E2B's lets your assistant create sandboxes.
E2B's MCP surface is the gateway and a docs server.
docs-confirmed “Connect to 200+ tools through the Model Context Protocol” Source
- Agent 37No
Note: MCP is a client feature here: instances reach out to Composio and Perflo, but nothing lets an assistant create an instance.
The docs index lists no MCP server for the Sandbox API.
inferred “Register Composio and Perflo with your MCP client.” Source
- BoatNo
Note: The only MCP server searches the documentation; it cannot start or drive a sandbox.
Sandboxes are driven by the CLI, API or SDK.
docs-confirmed “the boat CLI, the docs MCP server, llms.txt, skills” Source
- boxdNo
Note: boxd installs other products' MCP servers into its agents; it publishes no server that creates machines.
The console, CLI, SDKs and gRPC API are the control surfaces.
inferred “boxd manage integrations mcp linear claude” Source
Note: The MCP material is a separate Cloudflare code-mode project, not a server that starts sandboxes.
Sandbox control is Worker code.
docs-confirmed “Code Mode MCP Server” Source
- InstaBoxNo
Note: No MCP server is published for the InstaBox API, so an assistant cannot create machines through one.
A computer-use MCP runs inside the machine to drive its desktop.
inferred “Every body is JSON.” Source
- ModalNo
Note: The only MCP guidance is how to deploy someone else's MCP server inside Modal.
There is no control-plane MCP server.
inferred “Deploy a remote, stateless MCP server on Modal with FastMCP” Source
- MorphNo
No MCP server is documented; agents are driven through SSH, the devbox API or tmux.
inferred “through SSH, or puppeteered through the Devbox API” Source
- SpritesNo
Sprites are a place to run MCP servers, not a server that manages Sprites.
docs-confirmed “Run every MCP server in its own Sprite” Source
MCP appears only as a client you point at the browser inside a sandbox.
inferred “can both drive the same sandboxed Chrome through the official” Source
Note: No MCP server manages sandboxes; Vercel's MCP material is about building MCP servers on Vercel.
inferred “Manage sandboxes through the CLI, JS SDK, or Python SDK.” Source
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