DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Superserve

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Superserve

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Superserve
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Superserve: Per second
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Superserve: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Superserve: $0.0162
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Superserve: Pay as you go
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Superserve: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: No limit
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Superserve: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Superserve: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Superserve: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Superserve
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Superserve: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Superserve: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Superserve: $0.331

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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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 2 GiB.

Superserve fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR.

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