Caged vs Isorun
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Isorun costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Isorun runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Isorun
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Isorun: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Isorun: $0.015
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Isorun: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Isorun: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Isorun: Per second
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Isorun: MicroVM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Isorundocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Isorun: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Isorun: $0.015
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Isorun: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Isorun: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Isorun: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Isorun: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Isorun: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Isorun: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Isorun: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Isorun: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Isorun
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Isorun: $0.055
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Isorun: $0.110
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Isorun: $0.220
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Isorun fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.110 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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