Caged vs Vers

Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Vers costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Vers runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Caged

Isolated microVM sandboxes that record every agent action.

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

Visit site Caged profile

Vers

Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Starting credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Vers profile

What is different

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

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Caged

Vers

vCPU, per hour: Caged: $0.06; Vers: $0.04
Storage: Caged: Free; Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier: Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day; Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from: Caged: $29 / month; Vers: Pay as you go
Billing: Caged: Bundled machine time; Vers: Per second
Isolation: Caged: Firecracker microVM; Vers: Full VM

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Caged: $0.06; Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Caged: Included; Vers: Not listed
Storage: Caged: Free; Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier: Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day; Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from: Caged: $29 / month; Vers: Pay as you go
Billing: Caged: Bundled machine time; Vers: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation: Caged: Firecracker microVM; Vers: Full VM
GPU: Caged: Not listed; Vers: Not listed
Snapshots: Caged: Not listed; Vers:
Pause and resume: Caged: Not listed; Vers:

Developer

SDKs: Caged: Not listed; Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby
Integrations: Caged: MCP; Vers: Not listed

Trust

License: Caged: Not listed; Vers: Not listed
BYOC: Caged: Not listed; Vers: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Caged

Vers

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Caged: $0.060; Vers: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Caged: $0.120; Vers: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Caged: $0.240; Vers: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Caged fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use MCP.

Vers fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

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