Caged vs Phonebox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Phonebox
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Phonebox: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- A session must run longer than 3 hours.
- You use Claude Code.
Phonebox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need pause and resume.
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