Self-hosted DigitalOcean Harness Runtime alternatives
14 self-hosted sandbox providers you can use instead of DigitalOcean Harness Runtime. Containarium Cloud has the lowest hourly price, $0.040 for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime, for reference
DigitalOcean Harness RuntimeManaged microVM sandboxes for AI agents and their code.
IsolationFirecracker
2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.126 / hr
Free tierNot listed
Max sessionNot listed
14 self-hosted alternatives to DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
Sorted by hourly price for 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, low to high
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Containarium Cloud
Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.ContainerLower vCPU priceFree tier$0.040per hour
Sandbox0
Long-running agent sandboxes with durable storage.Bills on memory onlyNo session limitgVisor$0.060per hour
$0.150per hour
$0.158per hour
microsandbox cloud
Hosted microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code.MicroVMDisk only, from stopped persistent sandboxesFree plan, 5 computer-hours a month$0.165per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
$0.166per hour
PandaStack Sandbox
Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents.No session limitFirecracker$5.40 usage credit every month$0.173per hour
LangSmith Sandboxes
Isolated sandboxes for running agent-generated code.FirecrackerFrom Docker images or running sandboxes4 regions$0.189per hour
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Vers
Linux computers you can branch, checkpoint, and restore.Full VMLower vCPU priceCommits and checkpointsNot listedper hour
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DigitalOcean Harness Runtime first, then the 14 alternatives
Provider
Isolation
vCPU / hr
GiB / hr
Free tier
Max session
GPU
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.044
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- $0.020
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Isolation
- gVisor
- vCPU / hr
- Included
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.047
- Free tier
- $30 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free plan
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- $100 credit
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Free during public preview
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.050
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.054
- Free tier
- $5.40 / month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- $0.058
- Free tier
- 8 LSU a month
- Isolation
- Firecracker
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Isolation
- Container
- vCPU / hr
- Not listed
- Free tier
- None
- Isolation
- Full VM
- vCPU / hr
- $0.040
- Free tier
- Starting credit
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