boat vs Lizard Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Storage
boat: Free
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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 need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.018 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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