Collimate vs xShellz Agent Shell
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. xShellz Agent Shell runs gVisor 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
xShellz Agent Shell
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
xShellz Agent Shell
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Collimatecollimate
xShellz Agent Shellxshellz
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- xShellz Agent Shell: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- xShellz Agent Shell: Free plan, 1 box with 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- xShellz Agent Shell: $10 / month
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- xShellz Agent Shell: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- xShellz Agent Shell: No limit
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- xShellz Agent Shell: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- xShellz Agent Shell: gVisor
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- xShellz Agent Shell:
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- xShellz Agent Shell: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- xShellz Agent Shell: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
xShellz Agent Shell
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- xShellz Agent Shell: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
xShellz Agent Shell fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You need GDPR.
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