CreateOS Sandbox vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

CreateOS Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • 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 $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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