boat vs Containarium Cloud

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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boat

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

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Containarium Cloud
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU
boat: No
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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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 $0.040 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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