boat

Name: boat
Brand: boat

Full-VM sandboxes for coding agents on a monthly plan, plus hosted GitHub Actions runners on the same machines.

Operated by boat boat.dev Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

CI runners

boat CI (runs-on boat)

boat CI (runs-on boat): plans
Plan	Price	Includes
$20	$20 per user /month[1]	555 h of default VM time ($20), 100 sandboxes at once, 12/60/200 included starts per minute/hour/day, 10 saved snapshots
$100	$100 per user /month[1]	2,777 h of default VM time ($100), 300 sandboxes at once, 30/210/840 included starts per minute/hour/day, 50 saved snapshots, xlarge size
$500	$500 per user /month[1]	13,888 h of default VM time ($500), 1,000 sandboxes at once, 65/420/1,680 included starts per minute/hour/day, 250 saved snapshots
$2000	$2,000 per user /month[1]	55,555 h of default VM time ($2000), 2,000 sandboxes at once, 90/600/2,400 included starts per minute/hour/day, 1,000 saved snapshots

boat CI (runs-on boat): runner sizes and prices
Size	OS	Arch	vCPU	RAM	Disk	CPU	Price	Per minute
boat-smallLinux x64	Linux	x64	2	4 GB	51 GB	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	$0.018 /h[1]	$0.0003
boatLinux x64	Linux	x64	4	8 GB	51 GB	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	$0.036 /h[1]	$0.0006
boat-largeLinux x64	Linux	x64	8	16 GB	111 GB	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	$0.072 /h[1]	$0.0012
boat-xlarge $100 planLinux x64	Linux	x64	16	32 GB	251 GB	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	$0.2 /h[1]	$0.00333

Free trial jobs and public repositories are refused by default; public repositories can be allowed per GitHub account for listed users.
Usage first draws from the plan's included VM time ($20 buys about 555 default-size hours), then from a prepaid wallet.
Job starts count against the plan's included starts ($20 plan: 12 a minute, 60 an hour, 200 a day); starts above them cost $0.03 to $0.07 each from the wallet.
Higher plans are $100, $500 and $2,000 a month with 300, 1,000 and 2,000 sandboxes at once.
boat-xlarge needs the $100/month plan or higher.
A label option `from=<snapshot>` starts each job from a saved snapshot with the toolchain in place.
Every job runs on an Ubuntu Linux VM on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (x64) hosts; boat has no Windows runners.
The boat CLI can also run tests in a sandbox from GitLab CI, CircleCI or Buildkite; that path is not a hosted runner.

Billing

Limits

vCPU: unknown[2]Docs do not say; only the homepage plan copy says dedicated 4 vCPU / 8 GB VM-time
Concurrent jobs: 100[2]
Max job length: 6 h[2]

Setup

Setup billed: unknown[2]Not on CI or pricing pages; a job is a sandbox billed per second while it runs, but when billing starts relative to the job is not stated
Billed setup per job: unknown[2]Not published

Platform

Free allowance

Cache

Included: unknown[2]The CI page says actions/cache works as on GitHub-hosted runners; no boat cache storage is described
Extra storage: unknown[2]No boat cache storage price is published
Docker layer cache: No[2]
Persistent disks: No[2]

Features

Agent sandboxes

boat sandboxes: prices per size
Size	vCPU	RAM	Price
small	2	4 GB	$0.018 /h[1]
default	4	8 GB	$0.036 /h[1]
large	8	16 GB	$0.072 /h[1]
xlarge ($100+ plan)	16	32 GB	$0.2 /h[1]

Plans are $20, $100, $500 and $2,000 a month; unused included time does not roll over.
Snapshots, resume and fork are included (10 saved snapshots per $20 of plan).

Billing

Runtime

Billed on: Running time[5]
Isolation: unknown[5]Each sandbox is its own VM with its own kernel; the hypervisor is not named
Max session: 720 h[5]
Concurrent sandboxes: 100[5]

Raw data: JSON