DigitalOcean Harness Runtime vs Thunder Sandboxes

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime costs $0.044 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean Harness Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.044
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.0095
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Session volumes $0.05 per GiB-month
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Pay as you go
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Active CPU time only
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: After 15 minutes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Up to 100
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Python
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.063
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.126
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime: $0.252
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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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.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

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