Collimate vs Perplexity Sandbox

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

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Collimate

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

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Perplexity Sandbox
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

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

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Perplexity Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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