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- Free allowance
- A free demo key with no card: 2 concurrent sandboxes at 1 hour each, and a suspend call that stops the meter
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate2 concurrent sandboxes on the free demo key, 100 on the paid tier
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | a free demo key with no card: 2 concurrent sandboxes at 1 hour each, and a suspend call that stops the meter unit hours; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 2 concurrent sandboxes on the free demo key, 100 on the paid tier source
- retention-clamped a free sandbox session is capped at 1 hour; a paid session runs to 24 hours source
not stated |
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| Identity | email 'Sign up with an email and the gateway mints a key scoped to your tenant', quoted from collimate.ai/pricing read 2026-10-22 |
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| Egress | not published: the price list on https://collimate.ai/ and https://collimate.ai/pricing has vCPU, RAM and suspended-storage meters and states no egress allowance or overage price |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest REST API, a Python SDK and a hosted MCP server; no CLI or SSH interface is documented |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the demo key's concurrency, the 1-hour session and the suspend verb. The free tier is a capped demo, so the record names the caps |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 1 hour
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | collimate.ai/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | collimate.ai/pricing | 'Start free with a demo key, no card' and '2 concurrent sandboxes, 1 hour each' and 'Sign up with an email and the gateway mints a key scoped to your tenant - rate-limited and capped per key' and 'suspend # stops the meter', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | collimate.ai/ | the price list has vCPU, RAM and suspended storage meters and no egress meter |
| 2026-11-03 | collimate.ai/ | access is by REST, the Python SDK or hosted MCP |
More fields 6
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": 60,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "1 hour per session on the free key, 24 hours paid; an explicit suspend stops the meter before the cap"} |
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| free tier kind | trial |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "not stated on this page","durability": "forks preserve live process memory across clones","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "until deleted"} |
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Unknown values 8
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field