Agent Sandbox vs Collimate

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

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Agent Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$10 credit with a Google sign-in
Max session
Not listed

Collimate

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

What is different

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

Agent Sandbox
Collimate
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005/MB for output files
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Claude Code
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005/MB for output files
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Claude Code
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
BYOC
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent Sandbox
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Collimate: $0.256

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

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

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