Collimate vs inis.run

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

Updated

Collimate

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

inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
inis.run
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
inis.run: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Billing
Collimate: Per second
inis.run: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
inis.run: Up to 10
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
inis.run: Full VM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
inis.run: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
inis.run: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
inis.run: Paused sessions and persistent volumes cost about €0.07 per GB per month. Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
inis.run: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
inis.run: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
inis.run: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
inis.run: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
inis.run: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
inis.run: Full VM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
inis.run: No
Snapshots
Collimate:
inis.run:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
inis.run:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
inis.run: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
inis.run: In your own cloud account, from €30,000/year

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
inis.run
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
inis.run: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
inis.run: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
inis.run: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.

inis.run fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related