Collimate vs exe.dev

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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Collimate

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

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
exe.dev: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
exe.dev: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
exe.dev: $0.210

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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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need HIPAA.

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