Caged vs Superserve

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Caged

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

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Caged
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Caged: Free
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second
Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Superserve: No limit
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
Caged: Free
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Caged: Firecracker microVM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Caged: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
Caged: Not listed
Superserve:
Pause and resume
Caged: Not listed
Superserve:

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Superserve: $0.331

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

Superserve fits when

  • A session must run longer than 4 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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