Caged vs Oblien Workspace

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Caged

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Caged: Free
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Caged: Free
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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