boat vs Together Sandbox

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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boat

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

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

boat
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
boat: Full VM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
boat: Free
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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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 $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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