DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers
- Max session
- Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Billing
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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