Caged vs MIOSA

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Caged

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Caged
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Caged: Free
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second
Max session
Caged: 4 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
MIOSA: Up to 250
Integrations
Caged: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Caged: Free
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Caged: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

MIOSA fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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