Collimate vs Sandock
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 8 hours.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Sandock
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Sandock: 8 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Sandock: Up to 150
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Sandock: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Sandocksandock
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Sandock: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Sandock: Not listed
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Sandock: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Sandock: None
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Sandock: $5 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Sandock: Not listed
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Sandock: 8 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Sandock: After 30 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Sandock: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Sandock: Up to 150
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Sandock: Container
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Sandock: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Sandock: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Sandock:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Sandock: MCP
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Sandock: MIT
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Sandock
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Sandock: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Sandock: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Sandock: 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 8 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use Claude Code.
Sandock fits when
- You want an open-source platform (MIT) that you can self-host.
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