boat vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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boat

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

boat
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
boat: Free
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
boat: Full VM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
boat: Free
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boat:
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boat:
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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