Daytona vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Daytona costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Daytona runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Daytona

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$200 credit
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.

Daytona
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Daytona: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Isolation
Daytona: Container
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Daytona: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Daytona: $0.0162
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Daytona: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Daytona: $200 credit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Daytona: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Daytona: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Daytona: No limit
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Daytona: After 15 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Daytona: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Daytona: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Daytona: Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Daytona: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Daytona: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Daytona: Enterprise plan
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Daytona
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Daytona: $0.083
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Daytona: $0.166
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Daytona: $0.331
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Daytona fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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