# Battleships rankings by use case

Computed 2026-09-30 with each preset's default workload (see presets.json). Monthly USD. "Full matches" meet every requirement; "compromises" list what doesn't match.

## Software factory (`fullstack`)
11 of 366 providers fit. Required: vm_isolation, docker_inside, desktop, browser, persistent_disk.

1. boat.dev — $634/mo
2. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $1,010/mo
3. Prized — $1,652/mo
4. Blaxel — $2,373/mo
5. Amp Orbs — $2,861/mo
6. Daytona — $4,111/mo
7. E2B — $4,143/mo
8. Runta — $4,151/mo
9. InstaVM — $4,239/mo
10. Blaxel — $4,283/mo
11. Runloop — $8,152/mo
12. Replicas — $11,631/mo

Closest with compromises:
- zipbox — $482/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Runtime (withruntime.com) — $809/mo (Prepaid paid account: max 50 concurrent)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $1,463/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $1,861/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Runtime (withruntime.com) — $1,955/mo (Prepaid paid account: max 50 concurrent)
- Isorun — $2,684/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $2,796/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- CreateOS Sandbox (NodeOps) — $3,122/mo (Pro: max 20 concurrent)

## Always-on AI employees (`employees`)
16 of 366 providers fit. Required: strong_isolation, persistent_disk, browser.

1. Agent 37 — $279/mo
2. boat.dev — $657/mo
3. Agent 37 — $847/mo
4. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $1,048/mo
5. Prized — $1,075/mo
6. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $1,381/mo
7. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $2,511/mo
8. Blaxel — $2,832/mo
9. exe.dev — $3,833/mo
10. Railway — $3,977/mo
11. Amp Orbs — $4,176/mo
12. exe.dev — $4,289/mo
13. boxd — $4,601/mo
14. Runta — $5,277/mo
15. Blaxel — $5,318/mo

Closest with compromises:
- zipbox — $500/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Railway — $868/mo (required features unverified; different kind of product: app platform)
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) — $1,300/mo (Pay-as-you-go: sessions capped at 8 h)
- DigitalOcean Droplets — $1,745/mo (Pay as you go: max 3 concurrent; beta / preview pricing: may change)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $1,771/mo (Pay as you go: sessions capped at 24 h; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- PandaStack — $1,778/mo (smallest size offered is 8 vCPU / 4 GiB)
- Shardflux — $2,165/mo (required features unverified)
- Celesto Cloud — $2,190/mo (Usage-based paid: max 10 concurrent)

## Code interpreter bursts (`interp`)
34 of 366 providers fit. Required: nothing.

1. Agent 37 — $22/mo
2. Koyeb Sandboxes — $66/mo
3. Agent 37 — $82/mo
4. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) — $114/mo
5. Upstash Box — $119/mo
6. smol machines — $120/mo
7. Blaxel — $144/mo
8. Prime Intellect Sandboxes — $151/mo
9. Morph Cloud — $154/mo
10. Modal — $181/mo
11. Novita AI Agent Sandbox — $191/mo
12. Collimate — $213/mo
13. Vercel Sandbox — $216/mo
14. Sail Research (Sailboxes) — $250/mo
15. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $250/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $0/mo (different kind of product: VM)
- zipbox — $23/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- IONOS Cloud — $27/mo (different kind of product: VM; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $30/mo (different kind of product: VM)
- IBM Cloud VPC — $32/mo (different kind of product: VM)
- OVHcloud Public Cloud — $43/mo (different kind of product: VM; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Kedge — $45/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once; preview pricing published as estimates: final price may differ)
- Ubicloud — $52/mo (different kind of product: VM)

## Sandboxes for your users (`platform`)
19 of 366 providers fit. Required: nothing.

1. boat.dev — $209/mo
2. Upstash Box — $222/mo
3. smol machines — $381/mo
4. Sail Research (Sailboxes) — $410/mo
5. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $471/mo
6. Koyeb Sandboxes — $495/mo
7. Modal — $811/mo
8. Morph Cloud — $905/mo
9. Vercel Sandbox — $1,267/mo
10. Freestyle — $1,358/mo
11. Runta — $1,715/mo
12. Hopx — $1,938/mo
13. Declaw — $1,943/mo
14. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes — $2,260/mo
15. E2B — $2,354/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Agent 37 — $79/mo (Wallet ($250 lifetime top-ups): max 200 concurrent)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $115/mo (different kind of product: VM)
- Kedge — $154/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once; preview pricing published as estimates: final price may differ)
- zipbox — $159/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- IONOS Cloud — $182/mo (different kind of product: VM; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- shellbox — $211/mo (Prepaid: max 16 concurrent; Prepaid: max 32 vCPU running at once (needs 600))
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $224/mo (different kind of product: VM)
- Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $225/mo (different kind of product: VM)

## RL rollouts (`rl`)
5 of 366 providers fit. Required: fast_boot.

1. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $5,637/mo
2. E2B — $9,384/mo
3. Vercel Sandbox — $15,761/mo
4. Runloop — $15,922/mo
5. Modal — $19,038/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Agent 37 — $363/mo (Wallet ($250 lifetime top-ups): max 200 concurrent; unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $679/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))
- zipbox — $685/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked); unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- IONOS Cloud — $740/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked); unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $804/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))
- AWS EC2 (reference VMs) — $830/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))
- AWS Fargate — $872/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))
- Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $967/mo (unverified: fast boot (benchmarked))

## Agent evals (`evals`)
49 of 366 providers fit. Required: custom_image.

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $136/mo
2. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $161/mo
3. Azure Virtual Machines (Linux) — $173/mo
4. AWS Fargate — $174/mo
5. AWS EC2 (reference VMs) — $177/mo
6. AWS EC2 (reference VMs) — $186/mo
7. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $191/mo
8. Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $193/mo
9. boat.dev — $200/mo
10. IBM Cloud VPC — $230/mo
11. AWS Fargate — $239/mo
12. AWS Fargate — $252/mo
13. AWS EC2 (reference VMs) — $256/mo
14. Google Compute Engine (Linux VMs) — $263/mo
15. IBM Cloud VPC — $344/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Agent 37 — $58/mo (Wallet ($250 lifetime top-ups): max 200 concurrent)
- Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — $123/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- IONOS Cloud — $137/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- zipbox — $137/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- shellbox — $160/mo (Prepaid: max 16 concurrent; Prepaid: max 32 vCPU running at once (needs 1000))
- Agent 37 — $203/mo (Wallet ($250 lifetime top-ups): max 200 concurrent)
- Kedge — $213/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once; preview pricing published as estimates: final price may differ)
- OVHcloud Public Cloud — $231/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)

## CI runners (`ci`)
62 of 366 providers fit. Required: nothing.

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $73/mo
2. boat.dev — $86/mo
3. Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $93/mo
4. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $111/mo
5. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $124/mo
6. Agent 37 — $128/mo
7. Alibaba Cloud ECS International — $211/mo
8. Nebius — $247/mo
9. machine0 — $250/mo
10. AWS EC2 (reference VMs) — $255/mo
11. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $290/mo
12. Exoscale — $293/mo
13. Alibaba Cloud ECS International — $293/mo
14. AWS Fargate — $296/mo
15. Ubicloud — $300/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Agent 37 — $41/mo (shared vCPUs on this tier (Agent 37 sells dedicated cores separately as “Dedicated Performance”): heavy, sustained CPU use can be slowed by other tenants)
- IONOS Cloud — $60/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Koyeb Sandboxes — $88/mo (negotiated / enterprise price)
- shellbox — $96/mo (Prepaid: max 16 concurrent; Prepaid: max 32 vCPU running at once (needs 320))
- E2E Networks — $115/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once; shared vCPUs on this tier (E2E Networks sells dedicated cores separately as “Dedicated CPU”): heavy, sustained CPU use can be slowed by other tenants)
- Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — $142/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — $158/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Kamatera — $169/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once; shared vCPUs on this tier (Kamatera sells dedicated cores separately as “General purpose reserved thread hourly”): heavy, sustained CPU use can be slowed by other tenants)

## 24/7 dev boxes (`devbox`)
74 of 366 providers fit. Required: ssh.

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $0/mo
2. Contabo — $6.6/mo
3. Agent 37 — $12/mo
4. netcup VPS — $15/mo
5. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — $15/mo
6. Contabo — $16/mo
7. netcup VPS — $18/mo
8. Zo Computer — $18/mo
9. IONOS Cloud — $20/mo
10. Upstash Box — $20/mo
11. zipbox — $20/mo
12. Upstash Box — $21/mo
13. netcup VPS — $23/mo
14. UpCloud — $25/mo
15. shellbox — $25/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Kedge — $7.64/mo (preview pricing published as estimates: final price may differ)
- InsForge (InstaCloud) — $17/mo (different kind of product: app platform)
- Railway — $22/mo (different kind of product: app platform)
- Modal — $23/mo (Starter: sessions capped at 24 h)
- Cube Computer — $41/mo (promotional price)
- Fly.io Machines — $53/mo (different kind of product: app platform)
- Fly.io Machines — $54/mo (different kind of product: app platform)
- Fly.io Machines — $65/mo (different kind of product: app platform)

## Computer-use agents (`cua`)
23 of 366 providers fit. Required: desktop, browser.

1. Agent 37 — $53/mo
2. Agent 37 — $186/mo
3. boat.dev — $200/mo
4. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $237/mo
5. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $294/mo
6. PPIO Agent Sandbox — $464/mo
7. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $580/mo
8. Blaxel — $634/mo
9. Novita AI Agent Sandbox — $840/mo
10. Alibaba Cloud AgentBay — $863/mo
11. Scrapfly Cloud Browser — $913/mo
12. boxd — $948/mo
13. Scrapfly Cloud Browser — $968/mo
14. Tencent Cloud Agent Runtime — Agent Sandbox — $1,018/mo
15. Volcano Engine AgentKit / veFaaS sandbox — $1,062/mo

Closest with compromises:
- zipbox — $137/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Coasty — $244/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Gologin Cloud Browser — $252/mo (Enterprise: max 3 concurrent)
- Gologin Cloud Browser — $288/mo (Enterprise: max 3 concurrent; Enterprise: Business size not allowed)
- Gologin Cloud Browser — $324/mo (Enterprise: max 3 concurrent; Enterprise: Professional size not allowed)
- Kernel — $366/mo (required features unverified)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $400/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $519/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)

## Browser-use agents (`browseruse`)
22 of 366 providers fit. Required: browser, browser_control.

1. Browser Use Cloud — $140/mo
2. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) — $144/mo
3. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) — $173/mo
4. Zenrows Browser Sessions — $199/mo
5. boat.dev — $200/mo
6. Notte — $200/mo
7. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $250/mo
8. Zenrows Browser Sessions — $259/mo
9. Scrapeless Agent Browser — $274/mo
10. Zenrows Browser Sessions — $279/mo
11. Scrapeless Agent Browser — $292/mo
12. Blaxel — $317/mo
13. Scrapeless Agent Browser — $324/mo
14. Cloudflare Browser Run / Kitesurf — $328/mo
15. Browserless — $350/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Agent 37 — $29/mo (unverified: browser automation API)
- Upstash Box — $38/mo (unverified: browser automation API)
- zipbox — $69/mo (unverified: browser automation API; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Railway — $93/mo (unverified: browser automation API; different kind of product: app platform)
- Agent 37 — $101/mo (unverified: browser automation API)
- Runtime (withruntime.com) — $121/mo (unverified: browser automation API)
- Shardflux — $141/mo (required features unverified)
- DigitalOcean Droplets — $147/mo (Pay as you go: max 3 concurrent; unverified: browser automation API)

## Scraping & bots (startup scale) (`scrape`)
45 of 366 providers fit. Required: browser.

1. Agent 37 — $32/mo
2. boat.dev — $90/mo
3. Agent 37 — $121/mo
4. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $132/mo
5. PPIO Agent Sandbox — $157/mo
6. Browser Use Cloud — $198/mo
7. Agent 37 — $200/mo
8. Runtime (withruntime.com) — $204/mo
9. Blaxel — $215/mo
10. Notte — $244/mo
11. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $250/mo
12. Zenrows Browser Sessions — $260/mo
13. Zenrows Browser Sessions — $279/mo
14. Novita AI Agent Sandbox — $284/mo
15. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime / Code Interpreter / Browser) — $287/mo

Closest with compromises:
- zipbox — $34/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- DigitalOcean Droplets — $129/mo (Pay as you go: max 3 concurrent; beta / preview pricing: may change)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $134/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Celesto Cloud — $150/mo (Usage-based paid: max 10 concurrent)
- Railway — $162/mo (different kind of product: app platform)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $174/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Huawei Cloud AgentArts — $189/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Solari — $200/mo (Professional: max 10 concurrent)

## Mass scraping & bots (undetectable) (`scrapemass`)
1 of 366 providers fit. Required: browser, anti_bot, captcha_solving, residential_ip.

1. Browser Use Cloud — $2,950/mo

Closest with compromises:
- Notte — $4,875/mo (Startup: max 100 concurrent)
- Kernel — $6,000/mo (Start-Up: max 150 concurrent)
- Anchor Browser — $6,175/mo (Growth: max 200 concurrent)
- Scrapeless Agent Browser — $7,020/mo (Business: max 400 concurrent)
- Hyperbrowser — $7,313/mo (Scale: max 100 concurrent)
- Scrapeless Agent Browser — $7,410/mo (Business: max 400 concurrent; Business: Scale size not allowed)
- Scrapeless Agent Browser — $7,897/mo (Business: max 400 concurrent; Business: Growth size not allowed)
- Steel.dev — $7,950/mo (Scale: max 100 concurrent)

## Parallel red teaming (`redteam`)
8 of 366 providers fit. Required: vm_isolation, root, browser.

1. Amp Orbs — $200/mo
2. boat.dev — $200/mo
3. Blaxel — $217/mo
4. Tensorlake Sandboxes — $250/mo
5. Blaxel — $405/mo
6. Shardflux — $539/mo
7. Runloop — $770/mo
8. E2B — $1,043/mo
9. Daytona — $2,000/mo

Closest with compromises:
- zipbox — $34/mo (unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Prized — $81/mo (Paid credit plan: max 100 concurrent)
- DigitalOcean Droplets — $130/mo (Pay as you go: max 3 concurrent; beta / preview pricing: may change)
- Runtime (withruntime.com) — $135/mo (Prepaid paid account: max 50 concurrent)
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox / FC / AgentRun — $137/mo (unverified: root; unverified: how many machines can run at once)
- Celesto Cloud — $150/mo (Usage-based paid: max 10 concurrent; unverified: root)
- Railway — $154/mo (Pro: max 100 concurrent; required features unverified)
- PPIO Agent Sandbox — $154/mo (Pay as you go: max 50 concurrent; unverified: root)

## GPU eval jobs (`gpu`)
26 of 366 providers fit. Required: nothing.

1. Beam — $446/mo
2. Hyperstack — $625/mo
3. Koyeb Sandboxes — $628/mo
4. Northflank Sandboxes — $693/mo
5. OVHcloud GPU instances — $748/mo
6. Hyperbolic — $798/mo
7. Thunder Compute — $800/mo
8. Lambda — $823/mo
9. Jarvislabs — $876/mo
10. Runpod — $876/mo
11. Verda (formerly DataCrunch) — $897/mo
12. UpCloud — $952/mo
13. Nebius — $965/mo
14. Thunder Compute — $968/mo
15. Voltage Park — $995/mo

Closest with compromises:
- TensorDock — $586/mo (stock-limited: marketplace: $2.25 is the lowest currently available host; availability and price vary by host)
- Gcore Cloud / Functions / GPU — $671/mo (smallest size offered is 24 vCPU / 232 GiB)
- Runpod — $676/mo (stock-limited: Community Cloud is shrinking (no new hosts); on 2026-09-29 only 8 GPU types had Community stock, all Low; H100/B200/B300/RTX 4090/5090 had none.)
- Hyperstack — $680/mo (negotiated / enterprise price; term commitment)
- Vast.ai — $794/mo (stock-limited: marketplace offer snapshot 2026-09-28 (4 verified 1-GPU offers, cheapest used); offers come and go)
- Novita AI Agent Sandbox — $826/mo (stock-limited: 2026-09-29 console: only H100 SXM in stock ('Low', 4 GPUs available via API); RTX 4090, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 5090 and L40S shown 'Unavailable' (inventoryState none).)
- SF Compute (GPU market + Autoresearch sandboxes) — $990/mo (stock-limited: queued provisioning: create_node joins a queue and quotes an ETA; not an instant-capacity guarantee)
- Google Compute Engine GPU VMs — $1,198/mo (stock-limited: DWS Flex-start: capacity is granted when available (request may wait); VMs run for at most 7 days)

## macOS agents (`mac`)
6 of 366 providers fit. Required: nothing.

1. Scaleway Apple silicon (Mac mini) — $439/mo
2. MacinCloud — $445/mo
3. Scaleway Apple silicon (Mac mini) — $470/mo
4. MacStadium — $545/mo
5. Flow Swiss Mac Bare Metal — $601/mo
6. Namespace — $1,205/mo
7. use.computer — $1,642/mo
8. Namespace — $1,680/mo

Closest with compromises:
- MacinCloud — $246/mo (3 months or 1 year commitment)
- Depot (GitHub Actions runners) — $248/mo (beta / preview pricing: may change)
- Green Mini host — $345/mo (1-year for the €74/month M4 rate; billing term for other portal rows is not stated commitment)
- OakHost — $410/mo (stock-limited: every configuration "Out of Stock" on oakhost.com 2026-09-28)
- RentaMac (rentamac.io) — $532/mo (smallest size offered is 10 vCPU / 16 GiB)
- RentaMac (rentamac.io) — $565/mo (smallest size offered is 10 vCPU / 16 GiB)
- RentaMac (rentamac.io) — $595/mo (smallest size offered is 10 vCPU / 16 GiB)
- Apple Xcode Cloud — $125/mo (adjacent product, not a like-for-like sandbox; machine size not published)