DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Runtime

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers
Max session: Not listed

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Runtime

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session: No limit

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What is different

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

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vCPU, per hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044; Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers; Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Idle stop: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes; Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100; Runtime: Up to 200
SDKs: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python; Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044; Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers; Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go; Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only; Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; Runtime: No limit
Idle stop: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes; Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100; Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM; Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; Runtime: No
Snapshots: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; Runtime:
Pause and resume: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; Runtime:

Developer

SDKs: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python; Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063; Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126; Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252; Runtime: $0.160

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime fits when

You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

Runtime fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.
You need a sandbox larger than 16 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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