Caged vs Unikraft Cloud

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Unikraft Cloud runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Caged

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

Unikraft Cloud

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Hobby plan, free forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Caged
Unikraft Cloud
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Caged: $0.06
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Caged: Included
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Storage
Caged: Free
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from
Caged: $29 / month
Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Billing
Caged: Bundled machine time
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Caged: 4 hours
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Caged: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Caged: Up to 5
Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Caged: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Caged: MCP
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Caged: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
BYOC
Caged: Not listed
Unikraft Cloud: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Caged
Unikraft Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Caged: $0.060
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Caged: $0.120
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Caged: $0.240
Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

  • You use MCP.

Unikraft Cloud fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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