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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Islo Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteIslo Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Islo Sandboxesislo.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

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 $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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