Blaxel vs Caged
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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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.
Blaxel
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Caged: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Cagedcaged
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
Caged fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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