RemoteHost vs Runtime
Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
RemoteHost
Runtime
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Runtime: Up to 200
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
RemoteHost fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 72 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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