Collimate vs Northflank Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Northflank Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Northflank Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Northflank Sandboxesnorthflank
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Northflank Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Northflank Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Northflank Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
Northflank Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.067 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
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