Collimate vs E2B

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. E2B runs Firecracker 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

E2B

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
E2B
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
E2B: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
SDKs
Collimate: Python
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
E2B: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
E2B: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
E2B: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
E2B: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
E2B: $150 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
E2B: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
E2B: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
E2B: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
E2B: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
E2B: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
E2B: No
Snapshots
Collimate:
E2B:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
E2B:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
E2B: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
E2B: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
E2B
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
E2B: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
E2B: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
E2B: $0.331

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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 the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

E2B fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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