Caged vs OpenAI Code Interpreter
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. OpenAI Code Interpreter bills memory only, at $0.09 per GiB-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. OpenAI Code Interpreter runs containers.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
OpenAI Code Interpreter
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
OpenAI Code Interpreter
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: $0.09
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Memory only
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Container
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
OpenAI Code Interpreterdevelopers
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: $0.09
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: After 20 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Container
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, Ruby
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
OpenAI Code Interpreter
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: $0.180
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: $0.360
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- OpenAI Code Interpreter: $0.720
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 or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.360 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenAI Code Interpreter fits when
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
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