RemoteHost vs Zipbox
Zipbox costs $0.00685 per vCPU-hour. RemoteHost runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Zipbox 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
Zipbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
RemoteHost
Zipbox
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Zipbox: No
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
RemoteHostremotehost
Zipboxzipbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.00685
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- RemoteHost: Included
- Zipbox: Included
- Storage
- RemoteHost: Free
- Zipbox: Free
- Free tier
- RemoteHost: 7-day free trial
- Zipbox: $25 credit after a one-time $5 top-up
- Paid plan from
- RemoteHost: $20 / month
- Zipbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- RemoteHost: Bundled machine time
- Zipbox: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- RemoteHost: 72 hours
- Zipbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- RemoteHost: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Zipbox: 6 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- RemoteHost: Up to 2,000
- Zipbox: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- RemoteHost: Firecracker microVM
- Zipbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- RemoteHost:
- Zipbox: No
- Pause and resume
- RemoteHost:
- Zipbox: No
Developer
- SDKs
- RemoteHost: TypeScript
- Zipbox: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
- Integrations
- RemoteHost: MCP, Claude Code
- Zipbox: MCP, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain
Trust
- License
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- RemoteHost: Enterprise, on hardware you own
- Zipbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
RemoteHost
Zipbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- RemoteHost: Not listed
- Zipbox: $0.027
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
RemoteHost fits when
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need a sandbox larger than 6 vCPU · 16 GiB.
Zipbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 72 hours.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or LangChain.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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