Collimate vs HopX
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and HopX costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. HopX runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
HopX
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- HopX: $200 credit
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- HopX: No limit
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- HopX: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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HopXhopx
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- HopX: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- HopX: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- HopX: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- HopX: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- HopX: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- HopX: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- HopX: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- HopX: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- HopX: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- HopX:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- HopX:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- HopX: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- HopX: MCP
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- HopX: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- HopX: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
HopX
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- HopX: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- HopX: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- HopX: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
HopX fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
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