boat vs Watasu

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

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boat

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

Watasu

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boat
Watasu
Storage
boat: Free
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Watasu: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
Watasu: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Watasu: Up to 100

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Watasu: Not listed
Storage
boat: Free
Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Watasu: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Watasu: Not listed
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
Watasu: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Watasu: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Watasu
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Watasu: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Watasu: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Watasu: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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