Caged vs Prime Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs 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
Prime Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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