BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox vs Caged

BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox costs $0.0351 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox runs containers and limits a session to 24 hours. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.

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BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Caged

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

What is different

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

BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox
Caged
vCPU, per hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.0351
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.0081
Caged: Included
Billing
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time
Max session
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: 24 hours
Caged: 4 hours
Largest sandbox
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Container
Caged: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.0351
Caged: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.0081
Caged: Included
Storage
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Free
Free tier
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Paid plan from
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: $29 / month
Billing
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Per second
Caged: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: 24 hours
Caged: 4 hours
Idle stop
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Container
Caged: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Snapshots
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
Pause and resume
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Python, Go, Java
Caged: Not listed
Integrations
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: MCP

Trust

License
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed
BYOC
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: Not listed
Caged: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox
Caged
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.051
Caged: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.103
Caged: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox: $0.205
Caged: $0.240

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BytePlus AI Cloud Native Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.103 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.

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