DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Mosaic Sandbox

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.050 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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