Collimate vs Prime Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs 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
Prime 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
Prime Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Prime Sandboxesdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Prime Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Prime Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Prime Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Prime Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Prime Sandboxes: $0.180
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 pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Prime Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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