Celesto Cloud vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Celesto Cloud

Cloud computers for AI agents, each in a microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Celesto Cloud profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Hugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Celesto Cloud

Hugging Face Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Isolation: Celesto Cloud: MicroVM; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs: Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

Celesto Cloudcelesto.ai/pricing

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs-pricinghuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour: Celesto Cloud: Included; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage: Celesto Cloud: Free; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Celesto Cloud: Up to 10; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Celesto Cloud: MicroVM; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU: Celesto Cloud: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots: Celesto Cloud:; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume: Celesto Cloud:; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations: Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Celesto Cloud

Hugging Face Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.015; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.030; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Celesto Cloud: $0.060; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
You use MCP, the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
You need snapshots.

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 $0.030 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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