Collimate vs Fly.io Sprites

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Fly.io Sprites runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Fly.io Sprites

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 trial credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Fly.io Sprites
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Fly.io Sprites: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Fly.io Sprites:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Fly.io Sprites:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Fly.io Sprites
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Fly.io Sprites fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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