Collimate vs MIOSA

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Collimate

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250
SDKs
Collimate: Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
MIOSA: $0.298

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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 Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

MIOSA fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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