AgentBay vs Collimate

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Collimate

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Demo key, free with no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

AgentBay
Collimate
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Collimate: Up to 100
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Collimate: Python
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Collimate: Python
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Collimate: $0.256

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Collimate fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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