Collimate vs Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Qiniu Cloud Sandbox limits a session to 1 hour.

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Collimate

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

Qiniu Cloud Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
1 hour

What is different

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

Collimate
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Free
Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

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

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 1 hour
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Qiniu Cloud Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • A session must run longer than 1 hour.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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