DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Everstack

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Everstack costs $0.0666 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Everstack

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Everstack
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Everstack: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Everstack: Free
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Everstack: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Everstack: Up to 50
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Everstack: $0.0666
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Everstack: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Everstack: Free
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Everstack: $5 credit, valid 30 days after signup
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Everstack: $20 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Everstack: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Everstack: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Everstack: 4 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Everstack: Up to 50

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Everstack: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code
Everstack: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Everstack: Apache-2.0
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Everstack: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Everstack
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Everstack: $0.067
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Everstack: $0.133
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Everstack: $0.266

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.133 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Everstack fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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