Brimble Sandboxes vs Caged

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

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.

Brimble Sandboxes
Caged
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Caged: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Caged: 4 hours
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Caged: Up to 5
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Caged: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Caged: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: Included
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Caged: Free
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Caged: 4 hours
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Caged: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Caged: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
Caged: Not listed
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
Caged: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Caged: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Caged: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Caged
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Caged: $0.240

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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