boat vs StateSet Sandbox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Max session
No limit

StateSet Sandbox

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$25 trial credit, no card
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boat
StateSet Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Isolation
boat: Full VM
StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
Pause and resume
boat: No
StateSet Sandbox:
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
Storage
boat: Free
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
StateSet Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
StateSet Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
StateSet Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
StateSet Sandbox: $0.028

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

StateSet Sandbox fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.018 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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