Agent Sandbox vs boat

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

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Agent Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$10 credit with a Google sign-in
Max session
Not listed

boat

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

What is different

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

Agent Sandbox
boat
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
boat: Free
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Agent Sandbox: Container
boat: Full VM
SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: Included
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
boat: Free
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: No limit
Idle stop
Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
boat: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: Up to 2,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: Not listed
BYOC
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent Sandbox
boat
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: $0.009
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: $0.018
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
boat: $0.036

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Agent Sandbox 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 use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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