DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Runloop

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Runloop runs microVMs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Runloop

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$50 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Runloop
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Runloop: Per second
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Runloop: MicroVM
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Runloop: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Runloop: $0.0252
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Runloop: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Runloop: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Runloop
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Runloop: $0.634

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.126 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Runloop fits when

  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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