Freestyle VMs vs Hugging Face Sandboxes

Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour and Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Freestyle VMs

Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free plan, $0 forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Freestyle VMs profile

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Hugging Face Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

Freestyle VMs

Hugging Face Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Freestyle VMs: $0.04032; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour: Freestyle VMs: $0.0129; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Billing: Freestyle VMs: Per second; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
SDKs: Freestyle VMs: JavaScript; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Freestyle VMsfreestyle.sh/pricingfreestyle.sh

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs-pricinghuggingface.co

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Freestyle VMs: $0.04032; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
RAM, per GiB-hour: Freestyle VMs: $0.0129; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Storage: Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Freestyle VMs: $50 / month; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Freestyle VMs: Per second; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Freestyle VMs: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop: Freestyle VMs: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox: Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Freestyle VMs: Up to 400; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Freestyle VMs: Full VM; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU: Freestyle VMs: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Snapshots: Freestyle VMs:; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume: Freestyle VMs:; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Freestyle VMs: JavaScript; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Integrations: Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Freestyle VMs: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Freestyle VMs: Not listed; Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Freestyle VMs

Hugging Face Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Freestyle VMs: $0.066; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Freestyle VMs: $0.132; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Freestyle VMs: $0.264; Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Freestyle VMs fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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