boat vs exe.dev

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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boat

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

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
exe.dev: $0.0525
Storage
boat: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
exe.dev: Included
Storage
boat: Free
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
boat: No
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
boat: MCP
exe.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
exe.dev: $0.210

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.105 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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