Collimate vs Containarium Cloud
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Containarium Cloud runs containers.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Containarium Cloud
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Containarium Cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Containarium Cloud: Free tier
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Containarium Cloud: Container
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Containarium Cloudcontainarium
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Containarium Cloud: Free tier
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: After 1440 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Containarium Cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Containarium Cloud: $0.020
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Containarium Cloud: $0.040
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Containarium Cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
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