Runtime
Shares rank 10 of 17 agent sandboxes by recommenders
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.
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.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Docs links return 404
“the GitHub links to some of the docs (like self-hosting) give 404”
Comment from 22 May 2026 in “Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team”
Other agent sandboxes people recommend
The four most recommended other agent sandboxes, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker Sandboxes | 50 | 39 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| NVIDIA OpenShell | 36 | 8 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Claude Code sandbox | 16 | 18 | 47% | 6 | — | — |
| MXC (Microsoft Execution Containers) | 15 | 17 | 47% | 1 | — | — |
| RuntimeThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“and this is why you run a sandbox on withruntime.com”
“the GitHub links to some of the docs (like self-hosting) give 404”
“Congrats, amazing product!!”
“Checked license it said copyrighted which makes this unsuable for me.”
“Really cool! We're working on something similar over at”
“It comes with skills, so you can use your own local setup”
“this looks really powerful, in that it seems to have many use cases”
“That split is what lets workflows and long-lived keyed services recover cleanly across failure and restart.”
“Runtime is a production-ready framework that eliminates the complexity of building full-stack serverless applications on AWS.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.