DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs MIOSA

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs 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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
MIOSA: $0.298

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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 $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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