Caged vs Deno Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Deno Sandbox costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Deno Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 30 minutes.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Deno Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 30 minutes
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Deno Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Deno Sandboxdeno
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Deno Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Deno Sandbox: $0.150
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Deno Sandbox: $0.300
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Deno Sandbox: $0.600
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- A session must run longer than 30 minutes.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.
Deno Sandbox fits when
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.
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