Caged vs PandaStack Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
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