CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

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.

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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