boat vs Sailboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
boat: Free
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
boat: Free
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
boat: MCP
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Sailboxes: $0.124

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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 $0.062 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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