Brimble Sandboxes vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

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.

Brimble Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

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