Caged vs Containarium Cloud

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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Caged

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

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Containarium Cloud
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
Caged: Free
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

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

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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