Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Namespace Devboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

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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 $0.120 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

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