Brimble Sandboxes vs Collimate

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

Collimate

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

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
Collimate
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Collimate: Pay as you go
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Collimate: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Collimate: Up to 100
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Collimate: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
Collimate:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
Collimate:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Collimate: $0.256

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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