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Containarium Cloud vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteContainarium Cloud profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours
Visit siteHugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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 $0.040 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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