Caged vs CreateOS Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
CreateOS Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
CreateOS Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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