boat vs BoxCompute

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.

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boat

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

BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

What is different

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

boat
BoxCompute
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
BoxCompute: $0.10
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
boat: No limit
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
BoxCompute: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
BoxCompute: Included
Storage
boat: Free
BoxCompute: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
BoxCompute: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
BoxCompute: 42 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
BoxCompute: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
BoxCompute: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
BoxCompute: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
BoxCompute
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
BoxCompute: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
BoxCompute: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
BoxCompute: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 42 hours.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

BoxCompute fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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