Collimate vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Collimate

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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