Boat stretches $250 across agent VM fleets

boat’s pitch is compelling for high-throughput agent workloads, but the savings remain vendor-reported and should be validated against real workloads.

• –Full VMs, persistent disks, and snapshot forking support parallel coding-agent and RL experiments.
• –The default 4-vCPU, 8-GB machine costs $0.036/hour, with stopped sandboxes incurring no compute charges.
• –Compared with Blacksmith and Daytona, boat targets workloads that need state to survive beyond a single CI job.
• –EU-only hosting and capacity fallback to older infrastructure may limit consistency for some teams.
• –The strongest use case is fleet-scale experimentation where cheap, fast VM creation matters more than broad cloud-region coverage.