Collimate vs Everstack

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour. Collimate 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

Everstack

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Everstack
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Everstack: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Everstack: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Everstack: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Everstack: Up to 50
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Everstack: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Everstack: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Everstack: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Everstack: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Everstack: Up to 50

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Everstack: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Everstack
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Everstack: $0.067
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Everstack: $0.133
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Everstack: $0.266

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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 use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.133 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Everstack fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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