Beam Sandboxes vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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