Collimate vs Runloop

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Runloop

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Runloop
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Runloop: $50 credit
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Runloop: MicroVM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Runloop: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Runloop: MicroVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Runloop:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Runloop:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Runloop
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Runloop: $0.634

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Runloop fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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