# Pricing when using setup\_remote\_docker

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238>\
**Category:** Build Environment\
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238 "2018-01-09T01:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimmyjohn-granular](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/jimmyjohn-granular/32/11853_2.png) [@jimmyjohn-granular](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/jimmyjohn-granular)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238/1 "2018-01-09T01:16:49Z")

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Hello,

I wanted to know how pricing works with setup\_remote\_docker. If I have a paid plan with 2 containers, and I have setup\_remote\_docker in my circle.yml, then circle will spin up a remote environment to run docker/docker-compose related commands. Does that remote environment/container count against my quota ? e.g. If I have 2 containers plan, then when I trigger a build, will the remote environment be my second container? Or will I be able to concurrently trigger a second build?

thx  
Jim

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**Author:** ![halfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/halfer/32/9083_2.png) [@halfer](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/halfer)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238/2 "2018-01-09T16:17:08Z")

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> [@jimmyjohn-granular](#):
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> If I have 2 containers plan, then when I trigger a build, will the remote environment be my second container? Or will I be able to concurrently trigger a second build?

I don’t know the answer to this, as I’m on the free tier, but I’d be surprised if the remote build environment was counted as a second container. I’d count that as a “real” build container, with another slot being available for parallelism if you need it.

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**Author:** ![drazisil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/drazisil/32/24029_2.png) [@drazisil](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/drazisil)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238/3 "2018-01-16T15:37:32Z")

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`setup_remote_docker` doesn’t count against your plan, It’s overlap of the container the build is running in, and could be thought of as working similar to a Docker service image.

You only get billed for the containers directly listed on the build page. Good thing to check on! 🙂

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**Author:** ![drazisil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/drazisil/32/24029_2.png) [@drazisil](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/drazisil)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/pricing-when-using-setup-remote-docker/19238/4 "2018-01-17T23:00:04Z")

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