Caged vs HopX
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
HopX
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- HopX: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- HopX: No limit
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- HopX: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- HopX: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- HopX: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- HopX: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- HopX: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
HopX
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- HopX: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- HopX: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- HopX: $0.331
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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
HopX fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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