Caged vs Perplexity Sandbox

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

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Caged

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

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Caged
Perplexity Sandbox
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Storage
Caged: Free
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP, Claude Code
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Perplexity Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

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