Collimate vs Oblien Workspace

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
Collimate:
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need GDPR.

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