# What is the cheapest cloud Android phone for AI agents per minute?

Clousd $0.004, Mobilebox $0.01, Mobilerun $0.03, Limrun $0.04, Phone Harness 5¢, phonebox.dev and Genymotion $0.06 a minute as published, plus what a measured 10-minute session cost.

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Clousd lists the lowest price, $0.004 a minute and at most $0.80 a day, and Mobilebox is next at $0.01 a ready minute, billed per second with boot time and parked phones free. Mobilerun ($0.03 a minute after its $20 plan), Limrun ($0.04 on its $20 Entry plan), Phone Harness (5¢), phonebox.dev and Genymotion SaaS ($0.06) follow, as each vendor published its price on November 10, 2026.

We make Mobilebox, so it is one row below, judged like the rest. Prices come from each vendor’s own pricing page, reviewed on November 10, 2026; the session costs come from our [November 8 benchmark](https://mobilebox.dev/benchmarks).

## Per-minute prices, side by side

| Service | Price per minute, as published | How it bills |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clousd | $0.004 | at most $0.80 per phone per day |
| Mobilebox | $0.01 per ready minute | per second, one-minute minimum; boot time and parked phones free |
| Mobilerun | $0.03 after the included minutes | $20 plan with 600 minutes first |
| Limrun | $0.04 for Android | on the Entry plan, $20 a month |
| Phone Harness | 5¢ | boot free |
| phonebox.dev | $0.06 | Starter plan, $20 a month |
| Genymotion SaaS | $0.06 | pay as you go, per running device |
| Ramus | no per-minute price | 30 minutes a month free, then $2 and $10 plans |

The phones differ too. Clousd, Mobilerun, phonebox.dev and Mobilebox keep apps and data on a stopped phone; Ramus gives "a fresh device every session". Phone Harness and Mobilerun also rent real iPhones, and Mobilebox runs iPhone and iPad at $0.05 a minute. See [the best cloud phones for AI agents](https://mobilebox.dev/blog/best-cloud-phones-for-ai-agents) for what each phone is.

## What a 10-minute session cost, measured

The per-minute price is only part of the bill. In our benchmark on November 8, 2026, the same 10-minute session cost $0.10 on Mobilebox, $0.40 on Limrun’s Entry plan and $0.50 on Phone Harness, on each vendor’s free tier or trial, from one client in Nuremberg, Germany. Clousd, Mobilerun and phonebox.dev weren’t in that run, so we don’t quote a measured cost for them.

## Four things that change the bill

- **Minimums.** An agent that checks one screen and stops pays for the smallest unit the vendor bills. Mobilebox bills per second with a one-minute minimum, so a 30-second check costs $0.01.

- **Boot time.** A phone that takes 20 seconds to start costs nothing extra on Mobilebox and Phone Harness, where boot is free. Elsewhere, read the vendor’s terms.

- **Idle phones.** A phone left running between tasks costs money everywhere. Mobilebox parks a phone after 5 idle minutes, and a parked phone keeps its apps, data and logins for free; see [park and resume](https://mobilebox.dev/blog/park-resume-android).

- **Plan fees.** Limrun, Mobilerun and phonebox.dev start with a $20 plan. For a few runs a week, the plan fee is most of the bill.

## Which one is cheapest for your agent

- **A phone that runs all day:** Clousd’s $0.80 daily cap is the lowest we found.

- **A phone per task or pull request, started, checked and stopped:** per-second billing with free boot and free parking keeps each run at a few cents. That is the loop Mobilebox is built for; the [Python how-to](https://mobilebox.dev/blog/android-phone-for-python-ai-agent) shows one run end to end.

- **Fifty phones at once:** the same per-minute price applies to each, so 50 Mobilebox phones for 10 minutes cost $5.00; see [50 phones in parallel](https://mobilebox.dev/blog/run-android-phones-in-parallel).

- **A fresh device every time and only a few runs a month:** Ramus’s free 30 minutes may cover it.

Start with the [quickstart](https://mobilebox.dev/docs): new workspaces get free credit, and a first run with your agent costs about a cent.

## Try it in your agent in 60 seconds

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any agent that can read a web page. It asks for your email, gets its own key at once and adds the phone tools; the 6-digit code from your inbox keeps the workspace.

```
Set up Mobilebox for me: read https://mobilebox.dev/setup.md?via=cheapest-cloud-android-phone-per-minute and follow it.
```

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