Caged vs Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Caged

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

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Caged: Free
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300

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Which 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 $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2.

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