Collimate vs Together Sandbox

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

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

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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Which 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 $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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