Collimate vs Novita Sandbox
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 3 hours.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Novita Sandbox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $100 promotional credit
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Novita Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Novita Sandboxdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Novita Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Novita Sandbox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Novita Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Novita Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Novita Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Novita Sandbox: $0.058
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Novita Sandbox: $0.117
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Novita Sandbox: $0.233
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- A session must run longer than 3 hours.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Novita Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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