boat vs Caged
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs 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
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Caged: $0.06
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Caged: $29 / month
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Caged: Up to 5
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boat: No
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boat:
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boat fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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