Caged vs InstaVM
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
InstaVM
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- InstaVM: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
InstaVMinstavm
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- InstaVM: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- InstaVM: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
InstaVM fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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