RemoteHost vs Sandbox as a Service
Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
RemoteHost
Sandbox as a Service
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
RemoteHostremotehost
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
RemoteHost fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
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