BoxLite Cloud vs Caged
BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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BoxLite Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
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.
BoxLite Cloud
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Caged: Up to 5
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- BoxLite Cloud: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- BoxLite Cloud: No
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- BoxLite Cloud:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
BoxLite Cloud
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
- Caged: $0.240
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
BoxLite Cloud fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need pause and resume.
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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