Caged vs tama
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.
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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
tama
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- tama: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
tamatama
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- tama: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- tama: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- tama: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- tama: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- tama: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- tama: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- tama:
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- tama:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- tama:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- tama: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- tama: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- tama: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- tama: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
tama
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- tama: $0.023
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- tama: $0.045
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- tama: $0.091
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 use MCP.
tama fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
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