Caged vs Tenki Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Tenki Sandbox
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Tenki Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Tenki Sandbox: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Tenki Sandboxtenki
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Tenki Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Tenki Sandbox: MCP
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Tenki Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Tenki Sandbox: $0.331
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 want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tenki Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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