Caged vs StateSet Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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