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SPACE (Perplexity)

Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution: open-source sandboxes that run agent and user code in isolated Firecracker microVMs, managed over an HTTP API.

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Our rating
★ 4.0 / 5 preliminary
Pricing
Free
Category
Agent infrastructure
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Builder
Last updated
Oct 17, 2026

💲 Open source (Apache-2.0); self-hosted on your own Kubernetes/infrastructure. Source: github.com (checked Oct 17, 2026).

Pros & cons

👍 Pros

  • Production-tested: powers Perplexity Computer
  • MicroVM isolation with credential and egress controls
  • Snapshots, warm pools and an E2B-compatible wrapper

👎 Cons

  • You run the infrastructure (Kubernetes/Kind setup)
  • Newly open-sourced; ecosystem still small

Latest release

Oct 15, 2026

SPACE open-sourced

Perplexity open-sourced the sandbox platform behind Computer under Apache-2.0: Firecracker microVM per agent task, pause/suspend/resume, egress policies, and a published security evaluation. Source ↗

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