Caged vs inis.run
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. inis.run runs full VMs 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
inis.run
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
inis.run
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- inis.run: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- inis.run: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- inis.run: Full VM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- inis.run: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- inis.run: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- inis.run: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- inis.run: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- inis.run: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- inis.run: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- inis.run: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run: No
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
inis.run
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- inis.run: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- inis.run: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- inis.run: Not listed
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 need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
inis.run fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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