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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteDigitalOcean Harness Runtime profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours
Visit siteHugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean.com
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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