AgentBay vs boat

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Free trial with 25 hours
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
boat
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boat: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
boat: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
boat: Up to 2,000
Isolation
AgentBay: Container
boat: Full VM
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
boat: Included
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
boat: Free
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
boat: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
boat: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
boat: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
boat: Full VM
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
boat: No
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
boat:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
boat:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
boat: MCP

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
boat: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
boat: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
boat
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
boat: $0.009
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
boat: $0.018
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
boat: $0.036

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

boat fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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