Collimate vs Islo Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Islo Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Islo Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Islo Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Islo Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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