Caged vs Sandock
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Sandock runs containers 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
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Sandock
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sandock: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Sandocksandock
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Sandock: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Sandock: Not listed
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Sandock: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Sandock: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Sandock: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Sandock: Up to 150
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Sandock: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Sandock
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Sandock: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Sandock: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Sandock: Not listed
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 want to start without paying.
Sandock fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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