Collimate vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Collimate

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Demo key, free with no card
Max session
24 hours

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Collimate
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing
Collimate: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Collimate: $0.04
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Collimate: $0.012
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
Collimate: Pay as you go
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Collimate: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Collimate: 24 hours
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
Collimate: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Collimate: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Collimate: Up to 100
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Collimate: Firecracker microVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Collimate: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
Collimate:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
Collimate:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Collimate: Python
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code

Trust

License
Collimate: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Collimate: Enterprise plan
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Collimate
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Collimate: $0.064
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Collimate: $0.128
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Collimate: $0.256
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Collimate fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.128 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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