Collimate vs Docker Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Docker Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Docker Sandboxes runs microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Docker Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Docker Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Docker Sandboxes: Included
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Docker Sandboxes: $25 credit, one time
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Docker Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Docker Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Docker Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Docker Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Docker Sandboxesdocker
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Docker Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Docker Sandboxes: $25 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Docker Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Docker Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Docker Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Docker Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Docker Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Docker Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Docker Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Docker Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Docker Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Docker Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Docker Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Docker Sandboxes: $0.280
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.140 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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