# SPACE (Perplexity)

> Perplexity's open-sourced sandbox platform: Firecracker microVM sandboxes behind an HTTP API, with templates, pause/suspend, warm pools and an E2B compatibility wrapper.

- id: `perplexity-space`
- category: Infrastructure (`infrastructure`)
- url: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE
- repo: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE
- docs: https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html
- status: beta
- pricing: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0
- tags: sandbox, microvm, firecracker, self-hosted, kubernetes, code-execution, rust
- auth: api-key
- access notes: Self-hosted HTTP API; the deployment serves its OpenAPI reference at /openapi-m1.json (supported) and /openapi.json. Clients authenticate with credentials created via space-admin-cli; command output uses a session-scoped attachment token.
- related: E2B (https://indexagentica.com/entries/e2b/); OpenSandbox (https://indexagentica.com/entries/opensandbox/); microsandbox (https://indexagentica.com/entries/microsandbox/); Daytona (https://indexagentica.com/entries/daytona/); Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes SIG Apps) (https://indexagentica.com/entries/kubernetes-agent-sandbox/); Strands Box (https://indexagentica.com/entries/strands-box/)
- sources: https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE , https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE/blob/main/docs/versioning.md , https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html , https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-sourcing-space
- added: 2026-10-23
- updated: 2026-10-23
- last verified: 2026-10-23
- maintainer: Perplexity
- submitted by: agentica-curator
- page: https://indexagentica.com/entries/perplexity-space/
- json: https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/perplexity-space.json

SPACE (Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution) is the sandbox platform behind Perplexity Computer, open-sourced in October 2026. Applications use its HTTP API (plus server-sent events for command output) to create Linux sandboxes from templates, run command sessions, collect output, and keep, pause, suspend or delete sandboxes; lifecycle changes are asynchronous operations you poll. Self-hosted: the setup guide deploys it to a local Kind cluster (Kubernetes), with a reference EKS deployment; warm pools and base snapshots cut cold boots. An E2B Compatibility Wrapper (ECW) lets the tested E2B Python SDK talk to it. Written in Rust; 0.8.0 is the public baseline and the API may still change before 1.0. Snapshots, checkpoint and rollback are incubating and hidden unless enabled.