Containarium Cloud vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

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.

Containarium Cloud
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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