Hugging Face Sandboxes vs ix

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and ix costs $0.0288 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. ix runs full VMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

ix

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
ix
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
ix: $0.0288
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
ix: $0.0108
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
ix: Active CPU time only
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
ix: $0.0288
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
ix: $0.0108
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: $0.101 per GiB-month stored
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
ix: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
ix: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
ix: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: 100 vCPU · 256 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
ix: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: MCP

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
ix: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
ix
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
ix: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
ix: $0.101
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
ix: $0.202

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.101 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

ix fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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