Modal vs RemoteHost
Modal costs $0.070956 per vCPU-hour. Modal runs gVisor, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Modal
RemoteHost
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- RemoteHost: Included
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- RemoteHost: MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Modalmodal
RemoteHostremotehost
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Modal: $0.070956
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Modal: $0.024012
- RemoteHost: Included
- Storage
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Free
- Free tier
- Modal: $30 credit every month
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Paid plan from
- Modal: Pay as you go
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Billing
- Modal: Per second
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Modal: 24 hours
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Idle stop
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Modal: gVisor
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Modal:
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Modal:
- RemoteHost:
- Pause and resume
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost:
Developer
- SDKs
- Modal: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Modal: Claude Agent SDK
- RemoteHost: MCP
Trust
- License
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- BYOC
- Modal: Not listed
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Modal
RemoteHost
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Modal: $0.119
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Modal: $0.238
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Modal: $0.476
- RemoteHost: Not listed
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Modal fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
RemoteHost fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You need pause and resume.
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