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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Mosaic Sandbox

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Mosaic Sandbox costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Mosaic Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

Mosaic Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteMosaic Sandbox profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Mosaic Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Mosaic Sandboxsandbox.mosaicos.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Mosaic Sandbox: Included
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Free
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Mosaic Sandbox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Mosaic Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: LangChain, MCP

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Mosaic Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Mosaic Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.025
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.050
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Mosaic Sandbox: $0.100

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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 $0.050 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Mosaic Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain or MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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