boat sandbox claims 6x cheaper than Browserbase: 2k concurrent VMs for $26k/mo
Rasmic · x · 2026-10-05
New agent-sandbox product boat (by ASCII) is being hailed for pricing: a developer says it can run 2,000 concurrent 24/7 VMs and up to 29M three-minute browser sessions a month for $26k, versus $155k on Browserbase — roughly 6x cheaper — and used it to scrape 366 products with funding data. boat offers Ubuntu VM sandboxes with Docker, Chrome, GitHub CLI, Rust, Node.js preinstalled, SSH/SCP access, dedicated IPs, a 60fps virtual desktop, and snapshot forking. It bills by the second at a $20/mo minimum (555 VM-hours of 4 vCPU/8GB), with three size tiers, positioning itself as cheaper than E2B, Modal, and Vercel Sandbox; 7-day free trial.
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