boat vs Sandbox as a Service
boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
boat
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- boat: $0.009
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- boat: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- boat: Free
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- boat: Free trial with 25 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- boat: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- boat: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- boat: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- boat: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- boat: Up to 2,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- boat: Full VM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- boat: No
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- boat:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- boat:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- boat: MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- boat: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- boat: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
boat
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- boat: $0.009
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- boat: $0.018
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- boat: $0.036
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
boat fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
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