boat vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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boat

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

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

boat
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
boat: Free
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
boat: Free
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
boat: No
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boat:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
boat:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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