boat vs Novita Sandbox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours.

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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Novita Sandbox

Cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code and browsers.

Isolation: Not listed
Free tier: $100 promotional credit
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Novita Sandbox profile

What is different

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

Field

boat

Novita Sandbox

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage: boat: Free; Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Novita Sandbox: Per second
Max session: boat: No limit; Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Novita Sandbox: Up to 100
Integrations: boat: MCP, Claude Code; Novita Sandbox: Claude Code

Full comparison

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage: boat: Free; Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Novita Sandbox: Not listed
GPU: boat: No; Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots: boat:; Novita Sandbox:
Pause and resume: boat:; Novita Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations: boat: MCP, Claude Code; Novita Sandbox: Claude Code

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Novita Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Novita Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Novita Sandbox: $0.233

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

A session must run longer than 24 hours.
You use MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.117 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Novita Sandbox fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.

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