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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Northflank Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Northflank Sandboxes costs $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Northflank Sandboxes runs microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

Northflank Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteNorthflank Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Northflank Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Northflank Sandboxesnorthflank.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.01667
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.00833
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Volumes $0.15 per GB per month, also when paused. Ephemeral storage is included.
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Northflank Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: 20 vCPU · 40 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Northflank Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Northflank Sandboxes: Runs in your own cloud or VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Northflank Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.033
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.067
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Northflank Sandboxes: $0.133

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.067 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Northflank Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

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