Collimate vs Watasu

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

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Collimate

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

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Collimate
Watasu
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Watasu: Free Basic plan

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
Collimate: Per second
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
Watasu: Not listed
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
Watasu: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
Watasu: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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