- Free allowance
- Starter is USD 20 per month and includes 610 machine-hours, 35 concurrent sandboxes rising to 1,200, and 24-hour sessions, self-serve with a 7-day free trial.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaThe 610 machine-hour allowance is the binding term: a 4 vCPU / 8 GB sandbox running continuously needs 730 machine-hours a month and spends 120 hours of overage at USD 0.64, while a 2 vCPU / 4 GB box fits 24/7 inside the allowance.
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Starter is USD 20 per month and includes 610 machine-hours, 35 concurrent sandboxes rising to 1,200, and 24-hour sessions, self-serve with a 7-day free trial. A small machine (2 vCPU / 4 GB) counts 0.5 machine-hours per hour and a default machine (4 vCPU / 8 GB) counts 1, so the Starter allowance is 1,220 hours at 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Overage is USD 0.64 per standard machine-hour, metered by the second. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; trial |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) The 610 machine-hour allowance is the binding term: a 4 vCPU / 8 GB sandbox running continuously needs 730 machine-hours a month and spends 120 hours of overage at USD 0.64, while a 2 vCPU / 4 GB box fits 24/7 inside the allowance. source
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| Identity | card not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, cli, ssh REST API (OpenAPI), remote CLI, SSH via the RemoteHost gateway, TypeScript SDK @remotehost/sdk and a web console |
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| Tooling | the remote CLI (alias rh), the TypeScript SDK @remotehost/sdk, and the REST API |
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| Composes with | At 0.5 machine-hours per hour for a 2 vCPU / 4 GB box, USD 20 a month covers 1,220 hours, which is a 24/7 sandbox plus 490 spare hours for a second box part-time; that turns a per-hour sandbox into a fixed monthly cost, which is the shape a persistent agent service needs. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | This is the cheapest way found to keep a 2 vCPU / 4 GB sandbox alive every hour of the month: USD 20 buys 1,220 machine-hours at the 0.5x multiplier against a 730-hour month. It is recorded as trial-only because the free lane is a 7-day trial and the plan itself needs a card at checkout. The 24-hour session cap on Starter is the term that matters for a long-running service, since a session has to be recreated daily. Disk is not priced separately on the page; the repo-large and long-running profiles carry 80 GB and 160 GB disks. Checkout requires acknowledging that usage is measured from allocated resource-time. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 8 GB
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