boat vs Superserve

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
boat: Free
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
boat: Free
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Superserve: Per second

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Superserve: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boat: No
Superserve: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
Superserve:
Pause and resume
boat:
Superserve:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Superserve:

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Superserve: $0.331

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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 want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

Superserve fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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