BoxCompute vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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BoxCompute

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
Max session
42 hours

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

BoxCompute
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxCompute: $0.10
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxCompute: Included
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
BoxCompute: 42 hours
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
BoxCompute: Full VM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
BoxCompute:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxCompute: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxCompute
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.100
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.200
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxCompute: $0.400
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxCompute fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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