Beam Sandboxes vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Beam Sandboxes

Cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: No limit

Visit site Beam Sandboxes profile

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site DigitalOcean Harness Runtime profile

What is different

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

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Beam Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Isolation: Beam Sandboxes: Container; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs: Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing

DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean.com/pricing/harness-runtimedigitalocean.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Beam Sandboxes: No limit; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: Beam Sandboxes: Container; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Beam Sandboxes:; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots: Beam Sandboxes:; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume: Beam Sandboxes:; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs: Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code

Trust

License: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC: Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Beam Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.114; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.227; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.454; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use Claude Code.
You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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