CoreWeave Sandboxes vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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