Caged vs Northflank Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Northflank Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Northflank Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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