Run Claude Code remotely. Close your laptop. Keep coding.
Cloud environments where Claude Code, Cursor CLI and Codex run persistently. Start a session from anywhere, close your laptop, and your agent keeps working.
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Claude Code is incredible. Until you close your laptop.
Anthropic's Remote Control is a great step forward — but your laptop still has to stay open and awake. Walk away for more than 10 minutes and the session dies. Close the lid and everything stops. If you want Claude Code to keep running while you're away from your desk, commuting, or sleeping, you need it running in the cloud — not on your machine.
Skip the VPS setup. Start coding from anywhere in 60 seconds.
No SSH config. No tmux sessions. No Tailscale. No VPN. Just open CloudCLI and go.
Open CloudCLI from any device
Sign in on your phone, tablet, or laptop. Your cloud environment spins up instantly with Claude Code, Cursor CLI and Codex pre-installed and ready.
Give your agent a task
Tell Claude Code what to build. Walk away. Your agent keeps working in a real cloud environment with full filesystem, git, and terminal access — even after you close your laptop.
Pick up anywhere, anytime
Check in from your phone, or open the same session in VS Code or Cursor over SSH. All your files, changes and context are exactly where you left them.
Your session survives everything. Reboots, sleep, bad Wi-Fi.
Every CloudCLI environment runs in an isolated cloud container on our infrastructure. Kick off a task from your phone on the commute in. Close the app. Claude keeps coding. When you sit down at your desk, open VS Code and SSH straight into the same session — all your files, your git history, your running processes, exactly where you left them.
Every way to run Claude Code remotely — compared
DIY setups work, but they take 30–90 minutes to configure and break whenever one piece changes. CloudCLI gives you the same result in 60 seconds.
| Feature | Feature | Remote ControlAnthropic feature | DIY VPS + tmuxSelf-managed | CloudCLIManaged cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session persistence | ||||
| Laptop can sleep | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Survives reboots | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Start new session remotely | ✗ | Manual SSH | ✓ | — |
| Setup & access | ||||
| Setup time | ~5 min (Max only) | 30–90 min | 60 seconds | — |
| Mobile-native UI | ✓ (view only) | ✗ terminal only | ✓ full UI | — |
| VS Code / Cursor SSH | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Tools & flexibility | ||||
| Supports Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini | Claude only | Manual setup | ✓ pre-installed | — |
| API / n8n automation triggers | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | — |
| Team environment sharing | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | — |
| Cost | ||||
| Starting price | ~€100/mo (Max plan) | €5–12/mo VPS + your time | €7/mo managed | — |
| Open source / self-hostable | ✗ | N/A | ✓ GPL-3 | — |
Remote Control is a window into your local machine. CloudCLI gives you a cloud environment that keeps running whether your laptop is open or not.
The DIY stack works. Until something breaks.
The standard approach is SSH + tmux + Tailscale + Termius — four separate tools that each have their own auth, configuration and failure modes. Get it working and it's powerful. But every OS update, every network change, every credential rotation can break one piece and take the whole thing down. CloudCLI replaces that stack with a single managed environment. SSH access is still there if you want it. You just don't need the rest.
More ways to build with AI agents
Running Claude Code remotely is just the start. If you're working with a team, shared cloud environments for teams let everyone start from the same MCP servers, context files and tool configuration. And if you want to go fully hands-off, background coding agents let you trigger tasks from Linear or Jira and come back to finished code — no babysitting required.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about running Claude Code remotely
Anthropic's Remote Control lets you monitor a Claude Code session from your phone — but your laptop must stay on and the terminal must stay open. If your machine disconnects for more than a few minutes, the session dies. CloudCLI runs entirely in the cloud. Your laptop can sleep, reboot, or be off completely. Sessions persist independently of your hardware, and you can start brand new sessions remotely — something Remote Control doesn't support.
You can, and it works. But a production-grade remote Claude Code setup requires configuring SSH, tmux, Tailscale or a VPN, mosh for unstable connections, and a mobile terminal app — typically 30–90 minutes and four separate tools that can each break independently. CloudCLI gives you all of that pre-configured, with a proper mobile UI, SSH access included, and €7/month managed cost that's comparable to a VPS anyway.
Nothing. Your environment keeps running in the cloud. All terminal sessions, running processes, and file changes are preserved. Open CloudCLI again on any device and pick up exactly where you left off.
Yes. Every CloudCLI environment has SSH access. Add it as a remote host in VS Code or Cursor and get the full IDE experience against your live cloud environment.
Yes — you bring your own Claude, Cursor or Codex credentials. CloudCLI provides the cloud infrastructure and pre-installed tools. You're never locked into one AI provider.
Yes. You can run multiple cloud environments simultaneously — useful for running different agents on different projects or testing branches in parallel.
Yes. CloudCLI is built on ClaudeCodeUI, which is fully open source under GPL-3 with 6,900+ GitHub stars. You can self-host on your own infrastructure with full control over your data, or use the managed cloud version from €7/month.
Yes. CloudCLI has an API that lets you start and manage sessions programmatically — useful for triggering coding tasks from Jira, Linear, n8n workflows, or any automation pipeline.
Your agent doesn't stop when you step away from your desk
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