Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Novita Sandbox

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Novita Sandbox costs $0.03528 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Novita Sandbox limits a session to 24 hours.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Novita Sandbox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$100 promotional credit
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Novita Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Novita Sandbox: Per second
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Novita Sandbox: $0.03528
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Novita Sandbox: $0.01152
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: $0.00009 per GiB-hour after 60 free GiB
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: $100 promotional credit
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Novita Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Novita Sandbox: 24 hours
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Novita Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Novita Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Novita Sandbox: Claude Code

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Novita Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Novita Sandbox: $0.058
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Novita Sandbox: $0.117
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Novita Sandbox: $0.233

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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 $0.117 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Novita Sandbox fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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