boat vs Everstack

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Everstack

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Everstack
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Everstack: $0.0666
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Everstack: Up to 50
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Everstack: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Everstack: Free
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Everstack: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Everstack: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Everstack: Up to 50

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Everstack: Not listed
GPU
boat: No
Everstack: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Everstack:
Pause and resume
boat:
Everstack:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Everstack: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Everstack: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Everstack
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Everstack: $0.067
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Everstack: $0.133
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Everstack: $0.266

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.133 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 4 GiB.

Everstack fits when

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

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