Caged vs Vercel Sandbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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