boat vs CreateOS Sandbox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
boat: Free
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Isolation
boat: Full VM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
boat: Free
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boat: No
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
boat:
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
boat:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
boat: MCP
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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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 $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

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