Caged vs Prized Sandboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Prized Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Prized Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: No
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Prized Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Prized Sandboxes: $0.260
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 $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Prized Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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