Hugging Face Sandboxes vs inis.run

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

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

inis.run

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
€1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
inis.run
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
inis.run: No limit
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
inis.run: No
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
inis.run: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
inis.run: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
inis.run: Included
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: Paused sessions are billed for storage, not compute
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: €1.00 free trial credit, no card required
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
inis.run: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
inis.run: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
inis.run: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
inis.run: Full VM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
inis.run: No
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run:

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
inis.run: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
inis.run: In your cloud account, by quote

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
inis.run
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
inis.run: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
inis.run: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
inis.run: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

inis.run fits when

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

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