Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need ISO 27001.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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