Lizard Sandboxes vs RemoteHost

Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.

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Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

RemoteHost

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

What is different

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

Lizard Sandboxes
RemoteHost
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
RemoteHost: Free
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
RemoteHost: 72 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
RemoteHost: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RemoteHost: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
RemoteHost: Included
Storage
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
RemoteHost: Free
Free tier
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
Paid plan from
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
RemoteHost: $20 / month
Billing
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
RemoteHost: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
RemoteHost: 72 hours
Idle stop
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100
RemoteHost: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
Snapshots
Lizard Sandboxes:
RemoteHost:
Pause and resume
Lizard Sandboxes:
RemoteHost:

Developer

SDKs
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
RemoteHost: TypeScript
Integrations
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: MCP

Trust

License
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Not listed
BYOC
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Lizard Sandboxes
RemoteHost
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
RemoteHost: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
RemoteHost: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032
RemoteHost: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

RemoteHost fits when

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

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