Caged vs Fly.io Sprites

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Fly.io Sprites runs microVMs.

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Caged

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

Fly.io Sprites

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 trial credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Fly.io Sprites
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
Caged: Free
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Fly.io Sprites: MicroVM
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
Caged: Free
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Fly.io Sprites: MicroVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Fly.io Sprites
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Fly.io Sprites fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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