Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs boat

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
boat
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
boat: Included
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
boat: Free
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
boat: Bundled machine time
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
boat: No limit
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
boat: Up to 2,000
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
boat: Full VM
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
boat: No
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
boat: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
boat: Included
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
boat: Free
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
boat: $20 / month
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
boat: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
boat: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
boat: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
boat: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
boat: Full VM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
boat: No
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
boat:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
boat: No

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
boat: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
boat: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
boat: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
boat
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
boat: $0.009
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
boat: $0.018
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
boat: $0.036

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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