Collimate vs Modal
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs 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
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Modal
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Modal: $0.024012
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Modalmodal
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Modal: $0.070956
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Modal: $0.024012
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Modal: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Modal: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Modal: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Modal: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Modal: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Modal: gVisor
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Modal:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Modal:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Modal: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Modal: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Modal: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Modal
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Modal: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Modal: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Modal: $0.476
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.
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