BoxLite Cloud vs Collimate

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

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.

BoxLite Cloud
Collimate
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Collimate: Up to 100
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Collimate:
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Collimate: Python
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Collimate:
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Collimate:

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust
Collimate: Python
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Collimate: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Collimate: $0.256

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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