Collimate vs EQVPS Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Collimate

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

EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
EQVPS Sandboxes
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
SDKs
Collimate: Python
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
EQVPS Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
EQVPS Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.

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