Caged vs CoreWeave Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
CoreWeave Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
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 $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You need snapshots.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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