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DigitalOcean MicroVMs vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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DigitalOcean MicroVMs

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteDigitalOcean MicroVMs profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

What is different

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

DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Hugging Face Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Idle stop
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Isolation
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs.digitalocean.com
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Hugging Face Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when

  • 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 $0.078 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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