Caged vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need pause and resume.
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