Collimate vs Thunder Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Thunder Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Thunder Sandboxes: MCP
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.128 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Thunder Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
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