DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Sandbox0

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Sandbox0: Free
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Sandbox0: Up to 20
Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Sandbox0: $0.120

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

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.126 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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