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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Northflank Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

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

Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteNorthflank Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Northflank Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean.com
Northflank Sandboxesnorthflank.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes:
Snapshots
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Northflank Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Northflank Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

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

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.067 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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