boxd vs Caged
boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
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.
boxd
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boxd: $0.047
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boxd: $0.014
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- boxd: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- boxd: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boxd:
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- boxd:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- boxd: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- boxd: Custom plan
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boxd
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boxd: $0.075
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boxd: $0.150
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boxd: $0.300
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boxd 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.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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