> even a minimal setup (1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 5-minute session lifetime) would put us north of $70,000 a year based on Daytona's per-second sandbox pricing ($0.0504/h per vCPU, $0.0162/h per GiB RAM)
$70k?
how about if we round off one zero? Give us $7000.
That number still seems to be very high.
Hm. I think a dedicated 16-core box with 64 ram can be had for under $1000/year.
It being dedicated there are no limits on session lifetime and it'd run 16 those sessions no problem, so the real price should be around ~$70/year for that load.