boxd vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

boxd
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
boxd: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
boxd: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd 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.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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