Collimate vs Hugging Face Sandboxes
Collimate costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Collimate runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Collimate
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Demo key, free with no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Collimate
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Collimate: $0.04
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Collimate: $0.012
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Storage
- Collimate: $0.10 per GB-month while a sandbox is suspended
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Free tier
- Collimate: Demo key, free with no card
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Collimate: Pay as you go
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Collimate: Per second
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Collimate: 24 hours
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Collimate: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Collimate: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Collimate: Up to 100
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Collimate: Firecracker microVM
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- Collimate: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Collimate:
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Collimate:
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Collimate: Python
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Collimate: MCP, Claude Code
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Collimate: Not listed
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Collimate: Enterprise plan
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Collimate
Hugging Face Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Collimate: $0.064
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Collimate: $0.128
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Collimate: $0.256
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Collimate fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- 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 $0.128 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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