Collimate vs InstaVM
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
InstaVM
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- InstaVM: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
InstaVMinstavm
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- InstaVM: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- InstaVM: $0.331
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 use MCP.
- 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.
InstaVM fits when
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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