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BoxLite Cloud vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteBoxLite Cloud 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.

BoxLite Cloud
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

BoxLite Clouddocs.boxlite.ai
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
BoxLite Cloud: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
BoxLite Cloud: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
BoxLite Cloud:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
BoxLite Cloud: Claude Code
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

BoxLite Cloud
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need pause and resume.

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 $0.158 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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