Collimate vs Mosaic Sandbox

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: No
Snapshots
Collimate:
Mosaic Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Mosaic Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP, Claude Code, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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