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.

Category

Infrastructure

Website

https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE

Repository

https://github.com/perplexityai/SPACE

Docs

https://space.docs.perplexity.ai/guide/index.html

Status

beta

Pricing

open-source

License

Apache-2.0

Maintainer

Perplexity

Added

2026-10-23

Updated

2026-10-23

Last verified

2026-10-23

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• sandbox
• microvm
• firecracker
• self-hosted
• kubernetes
• code-execution
• rust

Description

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.

Agent access

Auth

api-key

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: Open-source, secure cloud sandboxes for AI agents: an isolated machine per agent to run code, browse and use tools.
• OpenSandbox: Open-source sandbox platform for running agents on your own infrastructure: isolated environments for code, commands, files, browsers and desktops, from Docker to Kubernetes.
• microsandbox: Easy, fast, programmable, local-first microVM runtime for untrusted workloads.
• Daytona: Secure and elastic infrastructure (sandboxes) for running AI-generated code.
• Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes SIG Apps): Kubernetes CRD and controller for isolated, stateful, singleton sandbox pods for agent runtimes and RL, with templates, claims and warm pools.
• Strands Box: Open-source local agent sandbox from AWS's Strands team: OS isolation plus default-deny Dogwood policies over shell, Python, network and MCP calls, with credential injection.

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

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)