Collimate vs Isorun

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Isorun costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Isorun runs microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Isorun

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Isorun
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Isorun: $50 credit
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Isorun: MicroVM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Isorun: $50 credit
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Isorun: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Isorun: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Isorun: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Isorun: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Isorun: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Isorun: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Isorun: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Isorun: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Isorun
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Isorun: $0.055
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Isorun: $0.110
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Isorun: $0.220

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Isorun fits when

  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.110 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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