Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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