Collimate vs Phonebox
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Phonebox 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
Phonebox
- Isolation
- Not listed
- Free tier
- $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Max session
- 3 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Phonebox
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Phonebox: Up to 5
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Phonebox: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Phonebox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Phonebox: 3 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Phonebox: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Phonebox: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Phonebox: Not listed
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Phonebox: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Phonebox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Phonebox: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Phonebox: MCP
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Phonebox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Phonebox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Phonebox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Phonebox: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Phonebox: Not listed
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 Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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