Caged vs Runta
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Runta costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Runta runs full VMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Runta
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Runta: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Runta: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Runta: $50 free credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Runta: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Runta: Per second
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Runta: Full VM
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Runta: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Runta: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Runta: $50 free credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Runta: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Runta: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Runta: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runta: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Runta: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Runta: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Runta: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Runta
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Runta: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Runta: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Runta: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runta fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You need snapshots.
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