boat vs inis.run

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

inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
inis.run
Storage
boat: Free
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
inis.run: Pay as you go
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
inis.run: Up to 10
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
inis.run: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
inis.run: Included
Storage
boat: Free
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
inis.run: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
inis.run: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
inis.run: No limit
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
inis.run: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
inis.run: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
inis.run: Full VM
GPU
boat: No
inis.run: No
Snapshots
boat:
inis.run:
Pause and resume
boat:
inis.run:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
inis.run: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
inis.run
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
inis.run: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
inis.run: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
inis.run: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

inis.run fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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