DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Perplexity Sandbox

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Perplexity Sandbox runs containers.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

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Perplexity Sandbox

Isolated Linux containers that run Python and bash code inside a Perplexity Agent API request.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Perplexity Sandbox profile

What is different

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

Field

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Perplexity Sandbox

Isolation: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM; Perplexity Sandbox: Container
SDKs: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python; Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean.com/pricing/harness-runtimedigitalocean.com

Perplexity Sandboxdocs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricingdocs.perplexity.ai

Pricing

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

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM; Perplexity Sandbox: Container
GPU: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
Pause and resume: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python; Perplexity Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Perplexity Sandbox

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252; Perplexity Sandbox: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use Claude Code.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

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