Collimate vs LangSmith Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

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

LangSmith Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Credit of 8 LSU every month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
LangSmith Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
SDKs
Collimate: Python
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
LangSmith Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378

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 want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.189 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

LangSmith Sandboxes fits when

  • You use LangChain.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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