Caged vs Leap0

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Leap0 costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Leap0 runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours.

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Caged

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

Leap0

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free during public preview
Max session
8 hours

What is different

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

Caged
Leap0
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Leap0: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Leap0: $0.0162
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Leap0: Free during public preview
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Leap0: Per second
Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Leap0: 8 hours
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Leap0: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Leap0: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Leap0: $0.0162
Storage
Caged: Free
Leap0: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Leap0: Free during public preview
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Leap0: Not listed
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Leap0: Per second

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Leap0: 8 hours
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Leap0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Leap0: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Leap0: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Leap0: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Leap0: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Leap0:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Leap0:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Leap0: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Leap0: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Leap0: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Leap0: Via the sales team

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Leap0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Leap0: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Leap0: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Leap0: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Leap0 fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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