Blaxel vs Collimate

Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Blaxel

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Credit of up to $200
Max session
No limit

Collimate

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

What is different

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

Blaxel
Collimate
vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Collimate: Per second
Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Collimate: 24 hours
Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
Blaxel: Pay as you go
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
Blaxel: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Blaxel: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Blaxel: Not listed
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Blaxel: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots
Blaxel:
Collimate:
Pause and resume
Blaxel:
Collimate:

Developer

SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Blaxel: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
BYOC
Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Blaxel
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Blaxel: $0.083
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Blaxel: $0.166
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Blaxel: $0.331
Collimate: $0.256

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Blaxel fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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