Collimate vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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