boat vs RemoteHost
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
RemoteHost
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- boat: Free
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- boat: No
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boat:
- RemoteHost:
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- RemoteHost:
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- RemoteHost: MCP
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
RemoteHost
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- RemoteHost: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boat fits when
- A session must run longer than 72 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
RemoteHost fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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