boxes.dev vs Caged

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

Caged

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Max session
4 hours

What is different

4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boxes.dev
Caged
vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Caged: $0.06
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Caged: $29 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Caged: Up to 5

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
Caged: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
Caged: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: 4 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
Caged: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
Caged: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
Caged: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
Caged
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
Caged: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
Caged: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
Caged: $0.240

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxes.dev 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 $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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