boat

Persistent Linux VMs for AI agents with SSH, Docker, and fast fork, billed per second

Aboutboat.dev

boat, formerly Box from ASCII, offers persistent Linux virtual machines for AI agents. Each machine has SSH, Docker inside, an IPv4 address, and fast fork. Billing runs per second and stops when a machine is off. A 7-day trial with 25 compute hours precedes plans from $20 a month.

For an agent

Use it to host long-running agents on cheap persistent machines. Stop idle machines, because billing runs while they are on.

Why it is here. It offers low-cost persistent compute for agent services.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Notable for

Per-second billing
Docker and SSH
Fast fork

Provenance

Verified 2026-10-09. HTTP 200. https://boat.dev/ (HTTP 200, page fetched 2026-10-09), depo.zip listing https://www.depo.zip/tools/j574e37y7n8rn1dyce0bke30x98ceg26

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