boat vs Sandbox0

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
boat: Free
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
boat: No
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
boat:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Sandbox0: $0.120

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.060 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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