Celesto Cloud vs Collimate

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
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.

Celesto Cloud
Collimate
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Collimate: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Collimate: Up to 100
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Collimate: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Collimate: $0.012
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Collimate: Pay as you go
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Collimate: Per second

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Collimate: 24 hours
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Collimate: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Collimate: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Collimate: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Collimate: Python
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Collimate
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Collimate: $0.064
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Collimate: $0.128
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Collimate: $0.256

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Collimate fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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