DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs exe.dev

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
exe.dev: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
exe.dev: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
exe.dev: $0.210

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 want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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