Cloudflare Sandbox vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
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.

Cloudflare Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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 $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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