Collimate vs microsandbox cloud
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
microsandbox cloud fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
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