Caged vs Celesto Cloud

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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Caged

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

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
Caged: Free
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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