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Blaxel vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Blaxel

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Credit of up to $200
Max session
No limit
Visit siteBlaxel profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

What is different

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

Blaxel
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Blaxel: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Blaxelblaxel.ai/pricing
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Blaxel: Included
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Blaxel: $0.0414
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Blaxel: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Blaxel: Memory only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

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

Platform

Isolation
Blaxel: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Blaxel: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Blaxel:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Blaxel:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Blaxel: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Blaxel
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Blaxel: $0.083
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Blaxel: $0.166
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Blaxel: $0.331
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Blaxel fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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