Declaw vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated

Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 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.

Declaw
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Declaw:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.

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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related