Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Caged
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
- Caged: Free
- Paid plan from
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
- Caged: 4 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
- Caged: Up to 5
- Isolation
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtimeaws
Cagedcaged
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
Caged fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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