Cua Fleets vs DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Cua Fleets costs $0.044625 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Cua Fleets runs gVisor. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Cua Fleets

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Cua Fleets
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Cua Fleets: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cua Fleets: $0.044625
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cua Fleets: $0.0223125
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Storage
Cua Fleets: Free
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Free tier
Cua Fleets: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Paid plan from
Cua Fleets: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Cua Fleets: Per second
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Cua Fleets: gVisor
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cua Fleets: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Snapshots
Cua Fleets: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Pause and resume
Cua Fleets: No
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Cua Fleets: Python, TypeScript, Rust
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Integrations
Cua Fleets: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, Claude Code
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code

Trust

License
Cua Fleets: Not listed
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Cua Fleets: Your AWS, Google Cloud, or Modal account
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cua Fleets
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.089
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.179
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cua Fleets: $0.357
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cua Fleets fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2.

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.179 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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