Caged vs Everstack
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Everstack
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Everstack
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Everstack: $0.0666
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Everstack: $20 / month
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Everstack: Up to 50
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Everstackeverstack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Everstack: $0.0666
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Everstack: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Everstack: Free
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Everstack: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Everstack: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Everstack: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Everstack: Up to 50
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Everstack: Not listed
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Everstack: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Everstack: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Everstack
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Everstack: $0.067
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Everstack: $0.133
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Everstack: $0.266
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.133 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.
Everstack fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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