DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Novita Sandbox

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Novita Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$100 promotional credit
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Novita Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Novita Sandbox: Per second
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Novita Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Novita Sandbox: $0.233

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Novita Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.117 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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