Collimate vs Tenki Sandbox

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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Collimate

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

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Tenki Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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