boat vs boxd
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. boxd runs microVMs.
Updated
boxd
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $30 credit with a payment method
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
boxd
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- boxd: $0.047
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- boxd: $0.014
- Storage
- boat: Free
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- boxd: Per second
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- boxd: MicroVM
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- boxd: $0.047
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- boxd: $0.014
- Storage
- boat: Free
- boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- boxd: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- boxd: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- boxd: Not listed
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- boxd: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- boxd: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- boxd: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- boxd: MicroVM
- GPU
- boat: No
- boxd: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boat:
- boxd:
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- boxd:
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- boxd: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- boxd: Not listed
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- boxd: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- boxd: Custom plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
boxd
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- boxd: $0.075
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- boxd: $0.150
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- boxd: $0.300
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boat fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
boxd fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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