Buddy Sandboxes vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes 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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Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.086 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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