boat courts Conductor Cloud refugees with cheap VMs

boat’s appeal is straightforward: full VMs provide more flexibility than disposable containers, while its low pricing makes always-on agent infrastructure practical for small teams.

• –Default 4-vCPU, 8-GB sandboxes cost $0.036 per hour, with a $20 monthly minimum.
• –Persistent disks, Docker, SSH, browsers, desktops, and snapshot forking support long-running development workflows.
• –CLI, API, and SDK access make boat suitable for building fleets of agent workers rather than just running one-off sessions.
• –The vendor’s performance claims lead competing sandbox providers, but the benchmark is self-published and should be independently validated.
• –Conductor users still need to export chats, push branches, and migrate secrets before the shutdown timeline closes.