Collimate vs Runta

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Runta costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Collimate

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

Runta

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$50 free credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Runta
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Runta: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Runta: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Runta: $50 free credit
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Runta: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Runta: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Runta: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Runta: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Runta: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Runta: $50 free credit
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Runta: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Runta: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Runta: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Runta: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Runta
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Runta: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Runta: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Runta: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Runta fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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