Caged vs xShellz Agent Shell
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
xShellz Agent Shell
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cagedcaged
xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell:
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
xShellz Agent Shell
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
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 need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need GDPR.
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