boat vs Koyeb Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Koyeb Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Koyeb Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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boat

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

Koyeb Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Koyeb Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Koyeb Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Koyeb Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.0144
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Koyeb Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Koyeb Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Koyeb Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Koyeb Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.014
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.029
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Koyeb Sandboxes: $0.058

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 $0.029 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

Koyeb Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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