OpenHands Remote Sandbox / Cloud

Free allowance: Not stated: https://docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote prints no free amount, unit or period; the page documents how to point the runtime at a remote sandbox (an API URL and an API key) and names no hosted plan or price
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: not stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: write-gatedthe record documents a configuration switch, not a hosted service: the remote sandbox is supplied by somebody else
Evidence: reported10 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19

Free tier	not stated: https://docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote prints no free amount, unit or period; the page documents how to point the runtime at a remote sandbox (an API URL and an API key) and names no hosted plan or price unit none; metered on wall-clock; the cited page prints no allowance and no price; it says remote sandboxes serve managed deployments such as OpenHands Cloud and self-hosted setups
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) the record documents a configuration switch, not a hosted service: the remote sandbox is supplied by somebody else source part of the text of Free tier, above
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not published: no egress allowance or overage price on https://openhands.dev/pricing and https://docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	rest API URL and API key for remote sandboxes; the OpenHands Cloud API with API keys is documented
Tooling	part of the text of Free tier, above
Composes with	part of the text of Free tier, above
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	reported the documentation page was read on 2026-10-22 and explains how to point the runtime at a remote sandbox. It names no hosted service and no price, so the record's free-tier claim cannot be settled from its own URL

Evidence 10

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	not published
2026-10-22	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	'Run conversations in a remote sandbox environment. A remote sandbox runs the agent server in a remote execution environment instead of on your local machine.' with `export RUNTIME=remote`, quoted; the page names no hosted provider and no price
2026-10-30	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	the cited page is a configuration guide for a remote sandbox and prints no free allowance, unit or period
2026-10-30	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	the free tier source page was read on the date set
2026-10-30	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	the page describes where remote sandboxes are used and states no allowance
2026-10-30	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	the cited page states no free amount, so free_tier.unit none still holds
2026-10-30	openhands.dev/pricing	the vendor pricing page lists every plan as self-hosted and names no hosted free plan
2026-11-03	openhands.dev/pricing	the pricing page prints a session cap and no egress allowance or overage price
2026-11-03	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/sandboxes/remote	remote sandboxes are reached through an API URL and an API key
2026-11-03	docs.openhands.dev/openhands/usage/cloud/cloud-ui.md	OpenHands Cloud offers API keys for programmatic access

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keep rate basis	no field in the source
billing model	unclassified
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "the runtime can expose extra service URLs such as VS Code and app ports; the page states no clock"}`
free tier kind	allowance
net	`{"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "additional service URLs may be exposed","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null}`

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