boat vs Oblien Workspace

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker 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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Oblien Workspace

Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Free tier, no credit card
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Oblien Workspace profile

What is different

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

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boat

Oblien Workspace

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage: boat: Free; Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation: boat: Full VM; Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript

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boatdocs.boat.dev/pricingdocs.boat.dev

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage: boat: Free; Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU: boat: No; Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots: boat:; Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume: boat:; Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations: boat: MCP; Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Oblien Workspace

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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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 want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.092 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Oblien Workspace fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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