FAQ
The practical details.
The pieces teams usually ask about before giving agents real infrastructure.
What is Run Cloud?
Run Cloud is infrastructure for agent builders and mobile development. It offers iOS simulators, XCode builds, and Linux sandboxes behind one API.
How fast do Linux sandboxes start?
Warm sandboxes resume from a full VM snapshot in under 200 milliseconds, and a fresh sandbox is running in under a second on the warm path.
How does billing work?
Everything is metered per second of actual runtime: vCPU, memory, and storage. Paused sandboxes have no cost.
Is it safe to run untrusted or AI-generated code?
Yes. Linux sandboxes are hardware-virtualized Firecracker microVMs with KVM isolation, not shared-kernel containers.
Can I snapshot and fork a sandbox?
Yes. Filesystem snapshots are point-in-time and copy-on-write, and can be restored on any host in the fleet.
I already use another sandbox provider. How hard is switching?
One line. Drop-in adapters for Modal, E2B, Blaxel, CodeSandbox, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fly.io, and Daytona let existing sandbox code keep working against Run Cloud.
Do I need a Mac to ship iOS apps?
No. XCode builds archive, sign, and export your IPA in the cloud and can upload straight to TestFlight.