boat vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Free trial with 25 hours
Max session
No limit

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boat
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Max session
boat: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
GPU
boat: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boat: Free
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
boat: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
boat:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
boat: MCP
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.018 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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