boat vs Prized Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated

boat

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

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boat
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
boat: Free
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
boat: Free
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.130 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related