Caged vs Freestyle VMs
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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