boat vs Isorun

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Isorun costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Isorun runs microVMs.

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boat

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

Isorun

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Isorun
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
boat: Free
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Isorun: $50 credit
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Isorun: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Isorun: Per second
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Isorun: MicroVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Isorun: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Isorun: $0.015
Storage
boat: Free
Isorun: Persistent disk $0.02 per GB-month for data stored
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Isorun: $50 credit
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Isorun: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Isorun: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Isorun: TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Isorun: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Isorun: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Isorun: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Isorun
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Isorun: $0.055
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Isorun: $0.110
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Isorun: $0.220

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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 want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.110 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Isorun fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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