RemoteHost vs Shellbox
Shellbox costs $0.01 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Shellbox 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
Shellbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
RemoteHost
Shellbox
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
RemoteHostremotehost
Shellboxshellbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.01
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Shellbox: Included
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Shellbox: A stopped box costs $0.50 per x1 slot per month
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Shellbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Shellbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Shellbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: After 2 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Shellbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Shellbox: Up to 16
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Shellbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Shellbox:
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Shellbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Shellbox: Not listed
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Shellbox: Claude Code
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Shellbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Shellbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.010
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.020
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Shellbox: $0.040
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
RemoteHost fits when
- You use MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Shellbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 72 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 16 GiB.
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