boat vs Cua Fleets

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Cua Fleets runs gVisor.

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boat

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

Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Cua Fleets
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
Pause and resume
boat:
Cua Fleets: No
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boat: MCP
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
Storage
boat: Free
Cua Fleets: Free
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Cua Fleets: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Cua Fleets: gVisor
GPU
boat: No
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Cua Fleets: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat:
Cua Fleets: No

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boat: MCP
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Cua Fleets
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Cua Fleets: $0.089
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Cua Fleets: $0.179
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Cua Fleets: $0.357

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 $0.179 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2.

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