boat alternatives
boat alternatives in DevOps & Infrastructure Automation. Persistent Linux VMs for agents, with SSH, Docker, and a desktop, billed by the second and free
Summary
boat alternatives in DevOps & Infrastructure Automation. Persistent Linux VMs for agents, with SSH, Docker, and a desktop, billed by the second and free while stopped. There is a 7-day trial with 25 compute hours, then plans from $20 a month. 12 other catalog listings are linked below.
Alternatives
- Maritime — Rents computers for agents: throwaway sandboxes, persistent boxes, Linux and Windows desktops, and Android phones. A sleeping machine is
- kosa8 — Puts each agent in its own microVM on your Mac or Linux box, so you can snapshot it and rewind in about a second. The network is
- Cloudbrowser — Gives each agent its own Chrome browser in the cloud, with a saved login, so the session is not tied to one desktop. Free is 1 browser-hour
- CtrlOps — A local desktop app for Linux servers: an AI terminal, a file manager and one-click deploys. Credentials stay on the machine, and it does
- Waycar — Watch coding agents on a Mac or Linux machine from an iPhone or iPad, over mosh and SSH. No account. Pro removes the limit for $5 a month or
- Nuclr Commander — A keyboard-first file manager that runs Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode side by side with your files and servers. The download is free
- Gologin Cloud Browser — Cloud Chromium for automation and agents, with a one-line Playwright or Puppeteer connection.
- lium.io — A marketplace for renting GPU pods (H100, H200, B200, RTX 4090 and others) from the browser or a CLI. Billing is per second at the rate
- shipsite.sh — Deploys a static site from one API call, aimed at agents that need a URL without a git workflow. Billing is $0.10 per site per day.
- Shipvela — Publishes React, Vite, and static sites you built in a coding agent, with GitHub updates, a custom domain, and HTTPS. The free plan is 3
- 10Web — Provides automated WordPress hosting, website building and management tools for streamlined website creation.
- Major — Infrastructure for shipping the apps and workflows a team builds with AI: deploy them, audit them, and work on them together. The homepage