Caged vs Namespace Devboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Namespace Devboxes
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Namespace Devboxesnamespace
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Namespace Devboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
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.
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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