Collimate vs Vers

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

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Collimate

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

Vers

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Starting credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
Vers
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Vers: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Vers: Starting credit
Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
Vers: Full VM
SDKs
Collimate: Python
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Vers: Included
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Vers: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Vers: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Vers: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Vers: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Vers: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Vers: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Vers: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Vers
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Vers: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Vers: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Vers: $0.160

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.

Vers fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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