boat vs BoxLite Cloud

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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boat

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

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
boat: Free
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Isolation
boat: Full VM
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Snapshots
boat:
BoxLite Cloud: No
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
boat: Free
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
boat:
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
boat: MCP
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boat: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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Which 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 $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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