Caged vs Upstash Box
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Upstash Box fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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