Collimate vs Namespace Devboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Namespace Devboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- 30-day free trial
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Namespace Devboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Namespace Devboxesnamespace
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Namespace Devboxes: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Namespace Devboxes: Up to 50
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Namespace Devboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript, Go
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Namespace Devboxes: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Namespace Devboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Namespace Devboxes: $0.240
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 need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Namespace Devboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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