boat vs Freestyle VMs

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boat

Persistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.

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

Visit site boat profile

Freestyle VMs

Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free plan, $0 forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Freestyle VMs profile

What is different

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

Field

boat

Freestyle VMs

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: boat: Free; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations: boat: MCP, Claude Code; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

boatdocs.boat.dev/pricingdocs.boat.dev

Freestyle VMsfreestyle.sh/pricingfreestyle.sh

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: boat: Free; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU: boat: No; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots: boat:; Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume: boat:; Freestyle VMs:

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations: boat: MCP, Claude Code; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Freestyle VMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Freestyle VMs: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Freestyle VMs: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Freestyle VMs: $0.264

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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 $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Freestyle VMs fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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