Seats, limits and caps

Seats

An organization pays for the larger of two numbers:

Its members.
The seats that the owner bought.

You do not need one person or one email for each seat. To get more starts and concurrency without more people, set the seat count. Use the Billing tab with the organization selected, or call the API:

curl -X PUT https://boat.dev/api/boat/teams/acme/seats \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOAT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"seats": 5}'

Change	Result
Raise the count	The organization card pays the prorated difference at once. If the card fails, the seat count does not change.
A member joins	The member takes an empty seat at no extra cost.
Lower the count	You get credit on the next invoice, not a card refund. You cannot go below the number of members.

Shared limits

The start-rate and concurrency numbers of the plan are one shared pool for the whole organization. Boat multiplies them by the number of seats. Example: a 5-seat organization on the $20 plan gets:

Limit	Value
Concurrent sandboxes	500
Starts per minute	60
Starts per hour	300
Starts per day	1000

If one member uses all of the hourly start budget, Boat refuses every other member’s new, fork and resume billed to the organization. This lasts until the window rolls.
Personal sandboxes use the member’s own personal limits.
The seat multiplier applies only while the organization’s plan is active. Without a plan, remaining credit packs still run sandboxes, at the limits of a single seat.

Per-member caps

One shared balance means one member can spend all of it. So the owner can cap each member on the Organization tab. Both caps are unlimited by default.

Cap	Limits
Usage cap	That member’s organization-billed machine time per billing window
Concurrent sandboxes	How many organization-billed sandboxes that member can run at once

Caps apply only to organization-billed sandboxes.
A sandbox counts against the caps of its creator. This is also true when a teammate resumes it.

Over the cap	`new`, `fork` and `resume` answer
Usage cap	`402 team_member_cap_reached`
Concurrent-sandbox cap	`429 member_limit_reached`

In both cases, Boat snapshots and stops the member’s organization sandboxes within about a minute. Nothing is lost. The sandboxes can resume again when the owner raises the cap or the billing window renews.

​Seats

​Shared limits

​Per-member caps

Seats

Shared limits

Per-member caps