Caged vs Zipbox
Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour and Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours. Zipbox runs Firecracker microVMs 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Caged
Zipbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Caged: $0.06
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Caged: Included
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- Caged: Free
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- Caged: $29 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Caged: 4 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Caged: Up to 5
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Caged: Python, TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- Caged: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Caged: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Caged
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Caged: $0.060
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Caged: $0.120
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Caged: $0.240
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 4 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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