Caged vs Modal
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs 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
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
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