Caged vs Sailboxes
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Sailboxes runs full VMs 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
Sailboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Sailboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Sailboxes: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sailboxes: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Sailboxes: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Sailboxes: $0.008
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sailboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Sailboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sailboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sailboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Sailboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Sailboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Sailboxes: $0.031
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Sailboxes: $0.062
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Sailboxes: $0.124
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.
Sailboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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