Hugging Face Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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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 $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need snapshots.

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