Collimate vs Solari

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor 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

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Solari: $0.342

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.171 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Solari fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need HIPAA.

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