DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Sailboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sailboxes: Per second
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sailboxes: Full VM
GPU
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Sailboxes:
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Sailboxes:

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Sailboxes: $0.124

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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.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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