Caged vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
OpenPond Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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