BoxLite Cloud vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

BoxLite Cloud

Hosted microVM boxes for AI agents, with an SDK.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $100 credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site BoxLite Cloud 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

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

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BoxLite Cloud

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

vCPU, per hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage: BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing: BoxLite Cloud: Per second; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox: BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Isolation: BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Snapshots: BoxLite Cloud: No; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
SDKs: BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

BoxLite Clouddocs.boxlite.ai/cloud/pricingdocs.boxlite.ai

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

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour: BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage: BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier: BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from: BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: BoxLite Cloud: Per second; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop: BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox: BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots: BoxLite Cloud: No; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume: BoxLite Cloud:; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs: BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

License: BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC: BoxLite Cloud: Not listed; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

BoxLite Cloud

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.079; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.158; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: BoxLite Cloud: $0.317; DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.158 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.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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