boat vs Railway Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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boat

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
boat: Free
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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