Question 1

What is Dedalus Labs?

Accepted Answer

Dedalus Labs is a Y Combinator-backed company building Dedalus Machines, VMs that boot in 50ms with full Linux, persistent storage, and VM-level isolation. The platform provides production compute infrastructure for AI agents, with per-second billing and scale-to-zero pricing where sleep is free.

Question 2

What are Dedalus Machines?

Accepted Answer

A Dedalus Machine (DM) is a full Linux VM that spins up in 50ms. Each machine has its own guest kernel with hardware-enforced VM-level isolation, persistent storage that survives restarts, and per-second billing. When your machine sleeps, you pay nothing. The API is three operations: create, exec, sleep.

Question 3

How fast do Dedalus Machines boot?

Accepted Answer

Dedalus Machines boot in 50ms using snapshot restore, not image pull. This is state-of-the-art as of 2026 and orders of magnitude faster than existing providers. The speed comes from a custom virtual machine monitor (VMM) called the Dedalus Hypervisor, built on the Cloud Hypervisor project.

Question 4

What isolation model does Dedalus use?

Accepted Answer

Dedalus uses VM-level isolation, the strongest isolation model available. Each machine gets its own dedicated guest kernel. The host CPU enforces boundaries in hardware via privilege ring transitions (VMX root/non-root) and Extended Page Tables (EPT). This is hardware isolation, not containers or user-space kernels.

Question 5

How does Dedalus Machines pricing work?

Accepted Answer

Every account receives a one-time $20 sign-up credit. Pro costs $20 per month and includes $20 in monthly compute credits. CPU and RAM are billed per second while a machine is active. Idle compute is free, and storage persists across sleep and wake cycles.

Question 6

How is Dedalus different from E2B, Daytona, or Fly.io?

Accepted Answer

Most providers force a tradeoff: fast startup but restricted environments (V8 isolates, Pyodide), or full sandboxes with slow boot times. Dedalus Machines give you both: a full unrestricted Linux environment with 50ms boot, VM-level isolation, persistent storage, and scale-to-zero billing. No imposed session limits, no garbage collection.

Question 7

What can I run on a Dedalus Machine?

Accepted Answer

Anything you can run on Linux. Dedalus Machines include systemd, root access, any package manager, any runtime, any binary. GPU support for ML workloads. Nested virtualization for building your own sandboxes. No restrictions on languages, frameworks, or system-level tools.

Question 8

Does Dedalus support persistent storage?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Dedalus Machines serve fully POSIX-compliant filesystems with a 100% pass rate on pjdfstest. Memory, volumes, and compute survive restarts. You can access files even while your machine sleeps. Compute and storage are disaggregated, enabling live VM migrations with zero downtime.

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Full Linux machines in <50ms

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Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

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Full Linux machines in <50ms

Machines that start in <50ms

Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

Full Linux. Maximum flexibility.

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The Fastest Persistent Computer for Agents

Full Linux machines in <50ms

Machines that start in <50ms

Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

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The Fastest Persistent Computer for Agents

Full Linux machines in <50ms

Machines that start in <50ms

Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

Full Linux. Maximum flexibility.

<50ms away from production

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The Fastest Persistent Computer for Agents

Full Linux machines in <50ms

Machines that start in <50ms

Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

Full Linux. Maximum flexibility.

<50ms away from production

The Fastest Persistent Computer for Agents

Full Linux machines in <50ms

Machines that start in <50ms

Filesystem and runtime persist across sessions

VM-level isolation. Safe for untrusted code.

Full Linux. Maximum flexibility.

<50ms away from production