Caged vs Docker Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Docker Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Docker Sandboxes runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Docker Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- One-time promotional credit for cloud compute
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Docker Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.07
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Docker Sandboxes: One-time promotional credit for cloud compute
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Docker Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Docker Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Docker Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Docker Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Docker Sandboxesdocker
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Docker Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Docker Sandboxes: One-time promotional credit for cloud compute
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Docker Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Docker Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Docker Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Docker Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Docker Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Docker Sandboxes: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Docker Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Docker Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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