Caged vs Sandbox as a Service
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs 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
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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.
Sandbox as a Service 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: $0.090 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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