Collimate vs Tensorlake Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
Tensorlake Sandboxestensorlake
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Tensorlake Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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