boat vs Daytona
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.
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What is different
11 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
Daytona
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Daytona: Container
- GPU
- boat: No
- Daytona:
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Daytona: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Daytona: $0.0162
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Daytona: $200 credit
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Daytona: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Daytona: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Daytona: No limit
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- Daytona: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Daytona: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Daytona: Container
- GPU
- boat: No
- Daytona:
- Snapshots
- boat:
- Daytona:
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- Daytona:
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- Daytona: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- Daytona: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
Daytona
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- Daytona: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- Daytona: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- Daytona: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
Daytona fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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