Caged vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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