boat vs Islo Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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boat

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

Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Islo Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
boat: Free
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
boat: Free
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Islo Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boat:
Islo Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
boat: MCP
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Islo Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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