boat vs Phonebox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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boat

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

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

boat
Phonebox
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Max session
boat: No limit
Phonebox: 3 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Phonebox: Up to 5
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Phonebox: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
boat: Free
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Phonebox: Not listed
GPU
boat: No
Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat:
Phonebox:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Phonebox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Phonebox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Phonebox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Phonebox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Phonebox fits when

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

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