Collimate vs Freestyle VMs
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs and offers GPUs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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