Caged vs Morph

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Morph costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Morph runs full VMs.

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Caged

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

Morph

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Morph
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Morph: $0.05
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Morph: Pay as you go
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Morph: Up to 128
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Morph: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Morph: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Morph: Included
Storage
Caged: Free
Morph: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Morph: Not listed
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Morph: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Morph: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Morph: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Morph: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Morph: Up to 128

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Morph: Full VM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Morph:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Morph:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Morph: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Morph: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Morph: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Morph: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Morph
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Morph: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Morph: $0.100
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Morph: $0.200

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.

Morph fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.100 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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