DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Prime Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

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

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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