Lower-priced boat alternatives
3 lower-priced sandbox providers you can use instead of boat. Agent37 Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.006 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. Hugging Face Sandboxes offers GPUs, which boat does not.
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boat, for reference
boatPersistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.
IsolationFull VM
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.018 / hr
Free tierFree trial with 25 hours
Max sessionNo limit
3 lower-priced alternatives to boat
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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Agent37 Cloud
Persistent Linux sandboxes and VMs for code and agents.Lowest hourly pricegVisorLower vCPU price$0.006per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.GPUFull VMLower vCPU price$0.010per hour
Lizard Sandboxes
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.FirecrackerLower vCPU priceMemory and files; restore to new sandboxes$0.016per hour
Side by side
boat first, then the 3 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.009
- Free tier
- Free trial with 25 hours
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- $0.001
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.005
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.008
- Free tier
- 7-day trial