Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Caged

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Caged

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

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Caged
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Caged: Free
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Caged: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Included
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Caged: Free
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: 4 hours
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Caged: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Caged: Not listed
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Caged: Not listed
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Caged: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: MCP

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Caged
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: $0.240

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Caged fits when

  • You use MCP.

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