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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours
Visit siteAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours
Visit siteHugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtimeaws.amazon.com
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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