Collimate vs Koyeb Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Koyeb Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Koyeb Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Collimate

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

Koyeb Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Koyeb Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Koyeb Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Koyeb Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Koyeb Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Koyeb Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Koyeb Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Koyeb Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Koyeb Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Koyeb Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.014
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.029
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.058

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Koyeb Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.029 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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