Caged vs Shardflux
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Shardflux
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Shardflux: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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