boat vs microsandbox cloud

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boat

Persistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.

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

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microsandbox cloud

Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session: Not listed

Visit site microsandbox cloud profile

What is different

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

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boat

microsandbox cloud

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage: boat: Free; microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; microsandbox cloud: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation: boat: Full VM; microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Pause and resume: boat:; microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage: boat: Free; microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU: boat: No; microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots: boat:; microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume: boat:; microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations: boat: MCP; microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC: boat: Not listed; microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

microsandbox cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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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 $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need pause and resume.

microsandbox cloud fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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