Collimate vs Cua Fleets

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

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Collimate

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

Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Cua Fleets
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Cua Fleets: No
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Cua Fleets: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Cua Fleets: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Cua Fleets: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Cua Fleets: No

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Cua Fleets
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Cua Fleets: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Cua Fleets: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Cua Fleets: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which 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.

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

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