Caged vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Caged

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Max session
4 hours

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Caged
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Caged: Free
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Caged: MCP, Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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