boxes.dev vs RemoteHost

boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

RemoteHost

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day free trial
Max session
72 hours

What is different

3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boxes.dev
RemoteHost
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RemoteHost: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxes.dev: Included
RemoteHost: Included
Storage
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Free
Free tier
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
boxes.dev: $19 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Billing
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time
RemoteHost: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: 72 hours
Idle stop
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxes.dev: Up to 10
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
Snapshots
boxes.dev:
RemoteHost:
Pause and resume
boxes.dev:
RemoteHost:

Developer

SDKs
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: TypeScript
Integrations
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: MCP

Trust

License
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
BYOC
boxes.dev: Not listed
RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxes.dev
RemoteHost
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.188
RemoteHost: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.375
RemoteHost: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxes.dev: $0.750
RemoteHost: Not listed

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

RemoteHost fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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