Collimate vs Depot Agent Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Depot Agent Sandboxes runs containers.

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Collimate

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

Depot Agent Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Depot Agent Sandboxes
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Depot Agent Sandboxes: $20 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Depot Agent Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Depot Agent Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need snapshots.

Depot Agent Sandboxes fits when

  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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