Caged vs Declaw

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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Caged

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

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

What is different

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

Caged
Declaw
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Caged: Free
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Declaw: Per second
Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Declaw: 72 hours
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Declaw: Up to 500
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Declaw: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Declaw: $0.0162
Storage
Caged: Free
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Declaw: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Declaw: Per second

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Declaw: 72 hours
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Declaw: Up to 500

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Declaw:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Declaw:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Declaw: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Declaw
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Declaw: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Declaw: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Declaw: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Declaw fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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