AgentBay vs Caged

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Caged

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Max session
4 hours

What is different

9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

AgentBay
Caged
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Caged: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Caged: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Caged: Up to 5
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Caged: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Caged: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Caged: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: 4 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Caged: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Caged: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Caged: Not listed
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Caged: MCP

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Caged
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Caged: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Caged: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Caged: $0.240

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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