Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Collimate

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

Updated Oct 15, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

Collimate

Live-fork microVM sandboxes for RL post-training and coding agents.

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

Visit site Collimate profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Collimate

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Collimate: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

Collimatecollimate.ai/pricingcollimate.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: $0.012
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Collimate:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Collimate:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Python
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Collimate

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Collimate fits when

You use MCP or Claude Code.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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