CreateOS Sandbox vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

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.

CreateOS Sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

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