# Runtime

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Runtime and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a sandbox for running coding agents and as a production-ready serverless framework for full-stack apps on AWS. Critics note broken self-hosting doc links and a copyright license flag.

## What people warn about

- Docs links return 404 (1 comments): "the GitHub links to some of the docs (like self-hosting) give 404" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234824))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Docker Sandboxes](https://hackerapproved.com/p/docker-sandboxes.md): 50 recommend
- [NVIDIA OpenShell](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openshell.md): 36 recommend
- [Claude Code sandbox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-sandbox.md): 16 recommend
- [MXC (Microsoft Execution Containers)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mxc.md): 15 recommend
- [microsandbox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsandbox.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://withruntime.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Runtime", https://hackerapproved.com/p/runtime/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).