boat vs LangSmith Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and LangSmith Sandboxes costs $0.0576 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. LangSmith Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boat

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

LangSmith Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Credit of 8 LSU every month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
LangSmith Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
boat: Free
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
boat: Full VM
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.0576
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.01845
Storage
boat: Free
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.000123 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
LangSmith Sandboxes: Credit of 8 LSU every month
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
LangSmith Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
LangSmith Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
LangSmith Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boat: No
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
LangSmith Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boat:
LangSmith Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
LangSmith Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
LangSmith Sandboxes: LangChain

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
LangSmith Sandboxes: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
LangSmith Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.095
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.189
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
LangSmith Sandboxes: $0.378

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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 $0.189 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

LangSmith Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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