Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions vs Collimate

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions runs full VMs. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions

Isolated sandbox sessions for running code on Azure.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions 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

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What is different

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

Field

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions

Collimate

Concurrent sandboxes: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Up to 600; Collimate: Up to 100
Isolation: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Full VM; Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Integrations: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: LangChain; Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

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Azure Container Apps dynamic sessionsazure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-appsazure.microsoft.com

Collimatecollimate.ai/pricingcollimate.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.012
Storage: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Up to 600; Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Full VM; Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate:
Pause and resume: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate:

Developer

SDKs: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Python
Integrations: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: LangChain; Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Not listed
BYOC: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions

Collimate

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions: Not listed; Collimate: $0.256

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Azure Container Apps dynamic sessions fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You use LangChain.

Collimate fits when

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

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