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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Koyeb vs Depot
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Koyeb and Depot — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Koyeb vs Depot: at a glance
| Feature | Koyeb | Depot |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Infra & APIs | Infra & APIs |
| Velocity score | 2.1 | 7.5 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 1 |
| Top themes | serverless infra, ai agent runtime, gpu pricing, ephemeral sandboxes | ci-cd, container-builds, agent-compute, sandboxes |
| Last editorial update | 1mo ago | 5d ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
What is Koyeb?
Koyeb signed a definitive agreement with Mistral while doubling down on Sandboxes for AI agents.
Koyeb is a serverless platform that's leaning hard into AI infrastructure: GPU instances across A100/H100/L40S/RTX Pro 6000 with aggressive price cuts, the Sandboxes product (ephemeral isolated microVMs) now in public preview specifically for orchestrating AI-generated code, and a steady cadence of tutorials integrating Claude Agent SDK, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenAI Apps SDK, Mistral Vibe, and Ollama. The platform-side fundamentals keep advancing — manual scaling, faster time-to-healthy deployments, scale-to-zero refinements, MFA/passkeys, partial-update PATCH endpoints. The April announcement of a definitive agreement with Mistral overshadows everything else.
What is Depot?
Depot turns its build-acceleration compute into a metered backend for AI agents.
Depot is shipping fast across two fronts: hardening its CI platform and opening its compute to AI workloads. Recent CI work includes native step retries, durable cache disks, and a generally available API and CLI with full dashboard parity. On the AI front it added SOCI v2 to cut startup time for large CUDA and PyTorch images and launched a Sandbox SDK to run untrusted or agent-generated code in ephemeral, billed sandboxes.
Koyeb vs Depot: editorial side-by-side
Koyeb
2.1INFRA · APIS
Koyeb signed a definitive agreement with Mistral while doubling down on Sandboxes for AI agents.
◆ Current state
Koyeb is a serverless platform that's leaning hard into AI infrastructure: GPU instances across A100/H100/L40S/RTX Pro 6000 with aggressive price cuts, the Sandboxes product (ephemeral isolated microVMs) now in public preview specifically for orchestrating AI-generated code, and a steady cadence of tutorials integrating Claude Agent SDK, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenAI Apps SDK, Mistral Vibe, and Ollama. The platform-side fundamentals keep advancing — manual scaling, faster time-to-healthy deployments, scale-to-zero refinements, MFA/passkeys, partial-update PATCH endpoints. The April announcement of a definitive agreement with Mistral overshadows everything else.
◆ Where it's heading
Koyeb is positioning as the runtime layer for the AI-agent economy: cheap GPUs, isolated sandboxes for arbitrary code execution, integrations with every major agent SDK. The Mistral agreement is the strategic capstone — exact terms are unclear from this feed, but a definitive agreement with a leading European model lab points to a vertically-integrated stack from model to runtime. Either Mistral is acquiring Koyeb's infra or vice versa; either way the AI-infra story tightens.
◆ Prediction
Expect Mistral-specific integrations to land fast (one-click model deploy, native Mistral inference endpoints, possibly preferential pricing for Mistral workloads). Sandboxes will likely move from public preview to GA, and the agent-SDK tutorial cadence will continue as the primary discovery channel for AI-developer customers.
Depot
7.5INFRA · APIS
Depot turns its build-acceleration compute into a metered backend for AI agents.
◆ Current state
Depot is shipping fast across two fronts: hardening its CI platform and opening its compute to AI workloads. Recent CI work includes native step retries, durable cache disks, and a generally available API and CLI with full dashboard parity. On the AI front it added SOCI v2 to cut startup time for large CUDA and PyTorch images and launched a Sandbox SDK to run untrusted or agent-generated code in ephemeral, billed sandboxes.
◆ Where it's heading
Depot is extending from build and CI acceleration toward being a general compute backend for agents. The Sandbox SDK, the agent-friendly GA API, and ML-image startup optimizations point the same way: sell fast, isolated, metered compute that AI tools and pipelines can drive programmatically. The CI improvements keep the core product sticky while the platform broadens.
◆ Prediction
Expect the Sandbox SDK to move toward general availability with more language and filesystem surface, and continued convergence of CI and sandbox compute under one metered, API-first platform.
Alternatives to Koyeb and Depot
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Koyeb or Depot.
Warp
Warp drops the terminal framing to bet on cloud software factories and agent orchestration
Unleash
Unleash leans hard into AI-agent governance and self-hosting as its crawled feed fills with thought-leadership.
GitHub
GitHub spends the week hardening enterprise governance and supply-chain security.
Resend
Resend keeps widening from a raw email API into agent-native tooling and audience management.
Daytona
Very high-cadence sandbox infra building the primitives agents need to run code
Recent activity from Koyeb and Depot
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9d agoDepotSOCI v2 support for Depot container builds
- 10d agoDepotSandbox SDK is now available in private beta ⚡
- 16d agoDepotNative step retries in Depot CI
- 18d agoDepotDurable cache disks for Depot CI jobs are now available in beta
- 24d agoDepotDepot CI API and CLI are now generally available
- 25d agoDepotSSH into Depot CI sandboxes now uses exec.depot.dev
- 2mo agoKoyebKoyeb signs definitive agreement with Mistral ⚡
- 2mo agoKoyebGoogle Authentication Support for Koyeb Control Panel, Service Lifecycle Deletion Policy, and more
- 2mo agoKoyebMarch 19, 2024New deployment events, improved deployment time after build succeeded, and moreNew deployment eventsImproved deployment tim…
- 3mo agoKoyebPartial Updates Now Valid Using the PATCH Endpoint of the Koyeb APINew Tutorial: Use Ollama to Test Multiple Code Generation Models with…
- 3mo agoKoyebJanuary 16, 2026New Serverless GPUs, Auto-deletion and Lifecycle Management for Koyeb Sandboxes, and moreNew Serverless GPUs: RTX Pro 600…
- 3mo agoKoyebMulti-factor Authentication (MFA) and Passkeys now available for Koyeb accountsNew range for idle period for Instances using Scale-to-Zer…
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Koyeb and Depot?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Depot is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.1), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Koyeb better than Depot?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Depot is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.1), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Koyeb?
Top Koyeb alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Koyeb alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/koyeb for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Depot?
Top Depot alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Depot alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/depot for the full list with editorial commentary on each.