Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

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