Collimate vs StateSet Sandbox

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor 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

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
SDKs
Collimate: Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
StateSet Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
StateSet Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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