Caged vs Cloudflare Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Cloudflare Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Cloudflare Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You want to start without paying.
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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