# Battleships

> Cost estimator and feature comparison for 360+ AI sandbox providers

Battleships is an interactive pricing calculator and feature matrix comparing over 360 cloud runtime, sandbox, and virtual machine providers for AI agent workloads. It lets users configure custom machine specifications, idle behavior, and concurrency levels to calculate exact expected bills across competing platforms based on documented billing regimes. Built by boat.dev, the project acts as a transparent benchmarking and cost analysis tool for AI agent compute.

Website: https://battleships.dev/

## What it is for

- Estimate monthly VM and sandbox compute costs for custom AI agent workloads
- Compare cloud sandbox providers across supported features like nested virtualization, snapshots, and desktop GUIs
- Evaluate trade-offs between pay-per-second, idle auto-suspend, and flat hourly runtime pricing models

## Features

- Workload cost estimator with preset scenarios for coding agents, scraping fleets, and RL rollouts
- Detailed feature filtering across VM specs, persistent storage, desktop control, and networking
- Documented billing regimes with cited rules, gotchas, and public source links for dozens of vendors
- Workload distribution statistics derived from real telemetry across tens of thousands of sandbox sessions
- Volume scaling charts that visualize how monthly bills shift as concurrency and usage grow

## Pricing

Free public directory and estimator tool

## Details

- Type: Website
- Category: [Development](https://xiry.app/topics/development.md)
- Open source: yes
- Platforms: Web
- For: Developers building AI agents, scrapers, and automated runtime infrastructure looking for cost optimization.
- Alternative to: Browserbase, E2B, Daytona
- Tags: sandboxes, pricing, benchmarks, cloud compute, ai agents, virtual machines

## Why it was saved

- [@AniC_dev, 4 October 2026](https://x.com/AniC_dev/status/2106602714490683853): Example output of the boat.dev scraping pattern; a directory of sandbox providers with feature/pricing/funding data.

## Compare

- [Alternatives to Browserbase](https://xiry.app/alternatives/browserbase.md)

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Updated 10 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/battleships

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