Caged vs Islo Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Islo Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit, no card required
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Islo Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Islo Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Islo Sandboxesislo
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Islo Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Islo Sandboxes: $0.600
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 $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Islo Sandboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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