RemoteHost vs Shardflux
Shardflux costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Shardflux runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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RemoteHost
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 7-day free trial
- Max session
- 72 hours
Shardflux
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
RemoteHost
Shardflux
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Shardflux: Up to 200
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.04
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Shardflux: $0.015
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Shardflux: Retained storage is a monthly allowance per plan. No hourly storage rate is published.
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Shardflux: 30-day Pro trial, no card needed
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Shardflux: $9 / month
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Shardflux: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shardflux: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Shardflux: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Shardflux: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux:
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Shardflux:
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Shardflux:
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Shardflux: TypeScript, Python
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Shardflux: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Shardflux: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Shardflux
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.070
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.140
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shardflux: $0.280
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.
Shardflux fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
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