# Why would you NOT use setup\_remote\_docker for docker executors

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-would-you-not-use-setup-remote-docker-for-docker-executors/50791>\
**Category:** Build Environment\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [March 14, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-would-you-not-use-setup-remote-docker-for-docker-executors/50791 "2024-03-14T21:12:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/why-would-you-not-use-setup-remote-docker-for-docker-executors/50791/3 "2024-03-15T00:00:09Z")

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The following old thread provides a little more info.

> [@Changes to Remote Docker Reporting & Pricing](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/changes-to-remote-docker-reporting-pricing/47759/1):
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> CircleCI has significantly improved the execution speed and reliability of jobs that use the [setup\_remote\_docker](https://circleci.com/docs/building-docker-images/) feature. [Our new implementation](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-architecture-change/45303) of the underlying architecture that powers jobs using setup\_remote\_docker gives you better flexibility, reliability, performance. Before: All jobs that used setup\_remote\_docker used a primary container that was the size of the resource class specified in config.yml & a remote medium-sized Linux virtual machine to execute Docker commands, regardless …

It does not answer your current question instead, it shows that in the past that there was an even larger difference between the offerings as the original meaning of ‘remote’ was just that a controlling environment would be created based on the resource class specified in config.yml and then an additional medium-sized linux environment would be created where the docker commands were run. Only the first environment was charged for.

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