Caged vs Lizard Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Lizard Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Lizard Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Lizard Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Lizard Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
Lizard Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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