Caged vs Runloop
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Runloop: $0.634
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 $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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