Caged vs microsandbox cloud
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
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 $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You need snapshots.
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