What is DigitalOcean Managed Agents?
Runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or your own agent in cloud microVMs, with governed access to 16,000+ tools.
Who is DigitalOcean Managed Agents best for?
DigitalOcean Managed Agents is best for teams that want coding agents such as Claude Code running in the cloud.
Agents that outlive your laptop
Harness Runtime keeps each session running in its own cloud microVM, then pauses it and saves its state so you can pick it up from another device.
Many agent runs at once
Sessions run in parallel, and you can checkpoint one and fork new sessions from it to try different approaches.
Agents that touch real systems
Action Gateway gives agents one MCP endpoint for 16,000+ tools, keeps credentials away from the model, and can require a person to approve sensitive actions.
Products with agents for their users
Isolated execution per session and per-user OAuth let a company run agents for its own customers on top of the platform.
How much does DigitalOcean Managed Agents cost?
DigitalOcean Managed Agents bills usage by the second from a prepaid balance; new DigitalOcean customers get $5 of trial credit, and the Pro and Team plans cost $50 and $200 a month in credit with 15% and 20% off usage.
- $50 of plan credit a month
- 15% off usage
- For teams running agents regularly
- $200 of plan credit a month
- 20% off usage
- For production fleets of agents
- Memory $0.0095 per GB-hour
- Default sandbox (2 vCPUs, 4 GB) at most $0.126 an hour
- Storage, checkpoints and templates $0.05 per GiB-month
- Web Search $10 per 1,000 calls
- Web Fetch $3 per 1,000 calls
- Tool search included
New DigitalOcean customers can start a free trial with $5 of credit; existing customers start on a paid plan. Usage draws down a prepaid balance with no per-session spend limit. Pausing a session stops compute charges, and an idle agent's CPU charge falls to zero. Models run on DigitalOcean Inference at its rates, or on your own provider key, billed by that provider. Both services are in public preview. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on digitalocean.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best DigitalOcean Managed Agents alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do DigitalOcean Managed Agents's job. E2B is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about DigitalOcean Managed Agents
What is DigitalOcean Managed Agents?
Runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or your own agent in cloud microVMs, with governed access to 16,000+ tools.
Who is DigitalOcean Managed Agents for?
DigitalOcean Managed Agents is best for teams that want coding agents such as Claude Code running in the cloud.
Is DigitalOcean Managed Agents free?
Only as a trial. New DigitalOcean customers get $5 of credit to try it; after that, usage is paid from a prepaid balance, and the Pro and Team plans add $50 or $200 of monthly credit with a usage discount.
How much does DigitalOcean Managed Agents cost?
DigitalOcean Managed Agents's paid plans are Pro at $50 per month, Team at $200 per month, Harness Runtime usage at $0.044 per vCPU-hour of CPU used and Action Gateway usage at $0.10 per 1,000 tool calls.
Is there an open source alternative to DigitalOcean Managed Agents?
Yes. E2B is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best DigitalOcean Managed Agents alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Claude Managed Agents, E2B and Composio.
Where can I try DigitalOcean Managed Agents?
On its official website, digitalocean.com.
Which agents can DigitalOcean Managed Agents run?
Harness Runtime runs Claude Code, Codex CLI and OpenCode, the general-purpose Hermes agent, and agents built with LangGraph or CrewAI. You can also bring your own agent as a standard OCI container image and reuse it as a template.
Codex
Paradev
Jean
Claude Code Agent View
Dray
Xirp