Azure Container Apps Sandboxes vs Caged
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes costs $0.0864 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes runs microVMs. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
- 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
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Caged: Free
- Billing
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Cagedcaged
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.108
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.216
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.432
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.216 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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