Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs boat

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

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

boat

Persistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.

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

Visit site boat profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

boat

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; boat: Free
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; boat: $20 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; boat: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; boat: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

boatdocs.boat.dev/pricingdocs.boat.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: Included
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; boat: Free
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; boat: $20 / month
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; boat: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; boat: Full VM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; boat: No
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; boat:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; boat:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: MCP

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; boat: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

boat

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

boat fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You use MCP.

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