DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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

Visit site DigitalOcean Harness Runtime profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Billing: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
Integrations: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtimedigitalocean.com/pricing/harness-runtimedigitalocean.com

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $5 credit for new DigitalOcean customers; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Firecracker microVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Claude Code, MCP; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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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 $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You want to start without paying.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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