boat records 66,870 monthly visits with +520.8% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Modal records 1,196,021 monthly visits with +30.2% growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Persistent Ubuntu cloud VMs built for AI agent factories
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | boat.dev | modal.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 66.87K (66,870) | 1.2M (1,196,021) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +56.1K (+520.8%) | +277.18K (+30.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (76.3%) | 🇺🇸 United States (43.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 37.78K | 845.64K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Persistent Ubuntu cloud VMs built for AI agent factories
Each sandbox is a complete Ubuntu machine with systemd, Docker, databases, and cron, so anything that runs on Linux runs here.
Clone a configured sandbox from a disk snapshot in seconds to launch large fleets of identical parallel agents.
Connect over SSH and SCP or open a 60fps virtual desktop and browser to inspect web apps, IDEs, and 3D scenes.
Drive everything programmatically through the boat CLI (with --json output), an HTTP API, or Python and TypeScript SDKs.
Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Write plain Python, attach GPUs or containers, and deploy HTTPS endpoints that autoscale with traffic and scale to zero when idle.
Launch isolated, secure environments for coding agents, RL rollouts, and untrusted code, with sub-second starts and support for over a million concurrent sandboxes.
Run fine-tunes, LoRA, full training, and reinforcement learning on elastic single or multi-node GPU capacity with no quota requests.
Serve LLMs and image, video, or audio models through OpenAI-compatible endpoints, or bring your own inference stack and let Modal handle the infrastructure.
SpecialistExtremely fast serverless execution optimized specifically for generative media models rather than general Python code.
SpecialistExtremely fast serverless execution optimized specifically for generative media models rather than general Python code.
Provides flexible GPU infrastructure and serverless endpoints, though less focused on pure Python function decorators.
Provides flexible GPU infrastructure and serverless endpoints, though less focused on pure Python function decorators.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on managed open-source model inference APIs rather than arbitrary custom container execution.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on managed open-source model inference APIs rather than arbitrary custom container execution.
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Delivers robust enterprise GPU clusters and managed inference, requiring more infrastructure setup than Modal's serverless approach.
Delivers robust enterprise GPU clusters and managed inference, requiring more infrastructure setup than Modal's serverless approach.
Easier model packaging via Cog, but offers less arbitrary serverless Python container execution than Modal.
Easier model packaging via Cog, but offers less arbitrary serverless Python container execution than Modal.
SpecialistLow-cost serverless inference APIs for 200+ open models
Cloud browsers and web APIs for AI agents
Cloud browsers and web APIs for AI agents
Provides integrated development studios and training workflows, but with less granular serverless function orchestration.
Provides integrated development studios and training workflows, but with less granular serverless function orchestration.
SpecialistCombines ready-to-use model APIs and serverless GPU jobs, with simpler API consumption than custom Modal apps.
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live
The low-cost cloud sandbox where AI agents actually live
