boat vs Brimble Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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boat

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

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

boat
Brimble Sandboxes
Storage
boat: Free
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Pause and resume
boat: No
Brimble Sandboxes:
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
boat: Free
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
boat: No
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boat: No
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You need pause and resume.

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