Collimate vs Lizard Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Collimate

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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Collimate
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Lizard Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which 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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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