boat vs Celesto Cloud

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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boat

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

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Integrations
boat: MCP
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

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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 want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.030 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

Celesto 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).
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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