boat vs Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Hyperbrowser Sandboxes costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Hyperbrowser Sandboxes 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

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

Isolated cloud VMs that run commands for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Hyperbrowser Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

boat

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.045
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage: boat: Free; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $5 credit (5,000 credits) on the Free plan
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $30 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU: boat: No; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: boat:; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: boat:; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations: boat: MCP; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.150
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Hyperbrowser Sandboxes: $0.300

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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 $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need pause and resume.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Hyperbrowser Sandboxes fits when

You need SOC 2.

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