Collimate vs tama

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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Collimate

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

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
tama
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
tama: Full VM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
tama: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
tama: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
tama: Full VM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
Collimate:
tama:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
tama:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
tama: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
tama: $0.091

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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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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