Boat cuts costs for agent VM fleets

boat’s aggressive pricing makes full-machine infrastructure far more viable for always-on agent workloads, though buyers should validate regional availability and performance consistency.

• –$20 buys roughly 555 hours on a 4-vCPU, 8GB VM, billed by the second. [Pricing details](https://boat.dev/compare)
• –Persistent VMs support workflows that need Docker, systemd, browsers, databases, and long-lived state.
• –Fleet controls scale from 100 to 2,000 active sandboxes on self-serve plans.
• –The main tradeoff is infrastructure maturity: a third-party comparison flags performance variation when capacity falls back to older Hetzner machines. [Freestyle comparison](https://www.freestyle.sh/blog/product/boat-dev-vs-freestyle)
• –EU-only hosting may limit adoption for teams with strict data-residency or latency requirements.