Hugging Face Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
OpenPond Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hugging Face Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
OpenPond Sandboxesopenpond
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
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