boat
boat is Persistent Linux VMs for AI agents with SSH, Docker, and fast fork. Billed per second, free when stopped. 7-day free trial, then from $20/mo.. It is ranked #14 on the Vibe Coding Radar, in Agent infra & costs, first seen 49 days ago and shared in 22 posts (259.8k views).
boat: Cheapest, Most Powerful Sandboxes for Agents Install boat CLI Fetch-friendly install commands for non-JavaScript agents and crawlers: MacOS: curl -fsSL https://boat.dev/install | sh Linux: curl -fsSL https://boat.dev/install | sh Windows: irm https://boat.dev/install.ps1 | iex 7-day free trial (25 compute hours), then from $ 20 /mo. boat: full text transcript boat is the cheapest, most powerful sandbox for agents, built for agent factories. A sandbox is a persistent Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine with SSH and SCP access, Docker support inside the VM, a dedicated IPv6 or IPv4 per machine, a 60fps virtual desktop, and fast disk-level…
What people said about boat on X
sorry @lovable, here are not 100 but 1500 agents playing minecraft on https://boat.dev all in game in <30s from a snapshot 1500 VMs, 6k vCPU, 12TB of ram, 75TB nvme snapshotted live just $0.015/s for all this so, lovable, moving to https://boat.dev already?
— @AniC_dev, 18 h ago · 309 likes · see the post
conductor cloud is shutting down on Nov the 13th in just 8 days! lots of you will now go on to build your own cloud software factory there is no better cloud sandbox/VM provider than http://boat.dev for that: > inexpensive (0.036/h for 4c 8gb) > super high single core perf CPU > devtools + desktop pre-installed >…
— @AniC_dev, 1 days ago · 154 likes · see the post
nice try we spun up 700 https://boat.dev VMs 4c x 8gb, started codex + minecraft, made it all play in multiplayer together they all booted from a snapshot in the first 10s, which cost $0.07, same price per VM, core & ram but much more impressive capabilities and scale
— @AniC_dev, 13 days ago · 136 likes · see the post
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boat in numbers
- Rank on the Vibe Coding Radar: #14 of 2591
- Shared in 22 posts by 4 accounts: @AniC_dev, @0xRishi
- 259.8k views on those posts
- First seen 49 days ago, last shared 12 h ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: freemium
- Market: Agent infra & costs
FAQ
What is boat?
Persistent Linux VMs for AI agents with SSH, Docker, and fast fork. Billed per second, free when stopped. 7-day free trial, then from $20/mo. It was first shared on X 49 days ago and is ranked #14 on the Vibe Coding Radar.
Is boat free?
It has a free tier and paid plans.
Who shared boat?
4 accounts on X, including @AniC_dev, @0xRishi, in 22 posts totalling 259.8k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 7.9k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 14 days, 2.6k tools, 12 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-11-06 12:43 UTC. Full method.