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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Lizard Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit
Visit siteLizard Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Lizard Sandboxeslizard.build

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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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 $0.016 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.

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