Caged vs Watasu
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Watasu 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
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Watasu
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Watasu: Free Basic plan
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Watasu: Per second
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Watasu: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Watasu: Up to 100
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Watasu: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Watasu: Not listed
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Watasu: Free Basic plan
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Watasu: Not listed
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Watasu: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Watasu: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Watasu: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Watasu: Not listed
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu:
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu: Not listed
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Watasu: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Watasu: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Watasu
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Watasu: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Watasu: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Watasu: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Caged fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
Watasu fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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