boat vs Cloudflare Sandbox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boat

Persistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.

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

Visit site boat profile

Cloudflare Sandbox

Containers at the edge, driven from a Worker.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Cloudflare Sandbox profile

What is different

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

Field

boat

Cloudflare Sandbox

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage: boat: Free; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Isolation: boat: Full VM; Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

boatdocs.boat.dev/pricingdocs.boat.dev

Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform/pricingdevelopers.cloudflare.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage: boat: Free; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU: boat: No; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots: boat:; Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume: boat:; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations: boat: MCP; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Cloudflare Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

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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 $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You want to start without paying.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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