Caged vs Daytona
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs 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
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Daytona
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Daytona: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Daytona: Container
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Daytonadaytona
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Daytona: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Daytona: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Daytona: Container
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Daytona
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Daytona: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Daytona: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Daytona: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
Daytona fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
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