Collimate vs CreateOS Sandbox
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
CreateOS Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- CreateOS Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
CreateOS Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use MCP.
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
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