Caged vs Hugging Face Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
Updated
Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
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.
Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
More comparisons
Agent Sandbox vs Caged- Agent Sandbox vs Hugging Face Sandboxes
Agent37 Cloud vs Caged- Agent37 Cloud vs Hugging Face Sandboxes
AgentBay vs Caged- AgentBay vs Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Caged
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Hugging Face Sandboxes