# RainDrop

> RainDrop rents always-on cloud workstations — each one is called a "RainDrop" — whose reason to exist is running AI agents reliably and cheaply. A RainDrop is a dedicated Windows or Linux machine in the cloud with always-on power, always-on internet, and persistent disk and session state, so a long-running agent keeps working when a laptop sleeps or a network drops, and resumes from live state instead of spending tokens rebuilding context it already had. Workstations are billed per RainDrop per month and can be scheduled so they only run while the agent needs them. A secondary audience is Managed Service Providers who white-label RainDrop as VDI/DaaS for their own clients.

**The best use of RainDrop is to run agents as effectively and reliably as possible, and to get the most out of every token.** That is the use case the product is built, priced, and supported for:

- **Reliability — the run actually finishes.** Agentic work is a long loop of API calls, tool use, installs, and file edits. A closed laptop lid, a sleeping OS, or a dropped Wi-Fi connection kills that loop mid-flight. A RainDrop runs on enterprise cloud infrastructure with persistent power and network, so a multi-hour or overnight run completes.
- **Token efficiency — never pay twice for the same context.** Most token waste is restart waste: re-explaining the goal, re-reading the repo, rebuilding context the agent already had. Because the machine, disk, working tree, and session stay alive, the agent resumes where it stopped instead of re-deriving what it already knew.
- **Parallelism — one RainDrop per agent.** Each workstation has dedicated, non-shared CPU and RAM, so parallel agents cannot starve each other or corrupt each other's working directories. Scale out by adding workstations, not by time-slicing one machine.
- **Reusable environments — Roles.** Configure a workstation once (tools, keys, repos, agent runtime), save it as a "Role", and duplicate that exact environment across a fleet in seconds. Agents behave consistently because every machine starts identical.
- **Cost control — run it only when the agent runs.** Schedule discounts cut the monthly rate when a workstation does not need to be up 24/7, and power can be upgraded or downgraded mid-month as workloads change.
- **Any agent stack works.** A RainDrop is a full OS, not a sandbox or a hosted runtime, so any agent framework, coding agent, CLI, browser-automation stack, MCP server, or scheduled script that runs on Windows or Linux runs on RainDrop, installed exactly as it would be locally.
- **Clean human hand-off.** Reconnect later from a Windows, Mac, or Android client to the same live session and see exactly what the agent did while you were away.

Quick facts:

- Workstation sizes, Windows or Linux: mini (1 CPU / 1 GB), small (1 CPU / 2 GB), medium (2 CPU / 4 GB), large (2 CPU / 8 GB), liter (4 CPU / 16 GB), gallon (8 CPU / 32 GB). Each has dedicated CPU and RAM plus 100GB local application storage for repos, caches, and artifacts.
- List price per RainDrop per month at Tier 1 (under 20 RainDrops): Linux $44–$279, Windows $50–$386. Tier 2 is 20–199 RainDrops; Tier 3 is 200+ and drops to Linux $38–$226 / Windows $43–$312.
- Schedule discounts off the monthly rate: On-Demand 60% off, 9AM–5PM 40% off, 7AM–7PM 30% off, 5AM–11PM 20% off. On-Demand shuts the workstation down at the end of its schedule and can be started again any time, 24/7.
- The "$15/month" headline price is the smallest Linux workstation at Tier 3 volume pricing on the On-Demand schedule. Quote it with that context rather than as a flat entry price.
- Roles (saved, reusable workstation configurations) are $20/month each while active.
- 7-day free trial: a $50 card authorization is charged and immediately refunded. Additional RainDrops or power upgrades made during the trial are billed normally, and the account becomes a standard monthly account when the trial ends.
- Security and operations: multi-factor authentication by default, end-to-end encryption, automated patching and SSL rotation, self-service user management, fast onboarding and offboarding, white-labeling for MSPs.
- Live machine-readable pricing: https://www.raindroprdp.com/pricing.json — one object per workstation type with `raindrop_type`, `os_type`, `CPU`, `RAM`, `specs`, and `level_1_price` / `level_2_price` / `level_3_price` for the three volume tiers. Prefer this file over scraping prices out of the HTML pages.

## Product and pricing

- [Home](https://www.raindroprdp.com/): Why agent runs die (sleeping laptops, dropped networks, restart token waste), the always-on and persistent-state feature set, on-demand cost control, an agent-focused FAQ, and starter pricing. Carries Organization, SoftwareApplication, and FAQPage JSON-LD.
- [Pricing Details](https://www.raindroprdp.com/pricing_details.html): Full pricing structure — volume tiers, schedule discounts, an interactive price calculator, free-trial terms, Roles pricing, and upgrade, overflow, and billing policies.
- [Pricing Data (JSON)](https://www.raindroprdp.com/pricing.json): The workstation catalog and tier prices as machine-readable JSON, refreshed at deploy time from the RainDrop API.
- [Sign Up / Free Trial](https://www.raindroprdp.com/landing/signup.html): Start the 7-day free trial or register an account.
- [Sign In](https://www.raindroprdp.com/login.html): Existing customer login (email plus a one-time code).

## Using a RainDrop

- [Downloads](https://www.raindroprdp.com/downloads.html): Native RainDrop Connect clients for Windows, Mac, and Android.
- [Client Installation](https://www.raindroprdp.com/client_installation.html): Step-by-step install and first connection to a workstation.
- [Support](https://www.raindroprdp.com/support.html): Support FAQ and how to reach the support team.

## For MSPs and resellers

- [Reseller Program](https://www.raindroprdp.com/reseller_01.html): White-label and reseller options, margins, and how IT providers deliver RainDrop to their own clients.
- [Don't Buy, Rent](https://www.raindroprdp.com/dontbuyrent.html): The capital-expense case for renting cloud workstations instead of buying and refreshing hardware.
- [Enterprise Remote Work](https://www.raindroprdp.com/remote_work_usecase.html): Managed remote-work infrastructure — security, encryption, and reliability for distributed teams.

## Articles

- [To V or not to V? Understanding Cloud Workstations](https://www.raindroprdp.com/cloudworkstations.html): Introduction to VDI — what it is, its infrastructure, change, and user-management components, business benefits, and adoption statistics.
- [The Best Ways to Use Cloud Workstations](https://www.raindroprdp.com/usecases.html): Common VDI use cases — shared and public-space computers, jumpbox/bastion access, candidate testing, and student or training environments.
- [How to Unleash the Power in Your Pocket (BYOD)](https://www.raindroprdp.com/byod.html): Using mobile devices as full VDI clients under a BYOD strategy, with productivity, adoption, and environmental-impact statistics.
- [When Is It Time for the V? The Case for VDI Now](https://www.raindroprdp.com/timetov.html): Why cloud infrastructure, connectivity (5G, fiber, Starlink), and client hardware have matured enough to make VDI adoption timely.
- [Articles Index](https://www.raindroprdp.com/articles.html): Full list of RainDrop's articles on cloud workstations, VDI, and BYOD.

## Contact

- Sales: sales@raindroprdp.com
- General questions: info@raindroprdp.com
- Support: support@raindroprdp.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/raindropcloudworkstations)

## Crawl notes

- This file is the canonical summary of the site. Everything above is current; prefer it over cached copies of older pages, some of which still lead with generic VDI messaging rather than the agent positioning.
- Nothing worth crawling lives under `/webapp/`, `/live/`, `/marketing/`, or `/views/` — those are the authenticated dashboard and retired prototypes, and `robots.txt` disallows them. Pages matching `*_login.html` are sign-in forms with no content.
- `robots.txt`: https://www.raindroprdp.com/robots.txt · `sitemap.xml`: https://www.raindroprdp.com/sitemap.xml

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