Caged vs Maritime

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

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Caged

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

Maritime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
3 agents, forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Maritime
Storage
Caged: Free
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Maritime: $20 / month
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: 1 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Maritime: Up to 500

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Maritime: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Maritime: Not listed
Storage
Caged: Free
Maritime: $2 per extra 5 GB per machine per month on Starter, $0.75 on Dedicated
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Maritime: 3 agents, forever
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Maritime: $20 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Maritime: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Maritime: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Maritime: 1 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Maritime: Up to 500

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Maritime: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Maritime: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Maritime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Maritime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Maritime: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Maritime: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Maritime: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 1 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Maritime fits when

  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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