Hugging Face Sandboxes vs PandaStack Sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and PandaStack Sandbox costs $0.054 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. PandaStack Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
PandaStack Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $5.40 usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hugging Face Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
PandaStack Sandboxpandastack
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.054
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.0162
- Storage
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.15 per GiB-month beyond the plan volume quota
- Free tier
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $5.40 usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- PandaStack Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- PandaStack Sandbox: No limit
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- PandaStack Sandbox: After 60 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Up to 500
Platform
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- PandaStack Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- PandaStack Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- PandaStack Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- PandaStack Sandbox: Enterprise plan, BYO-VPC
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
PandaStack Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.086
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.173
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
- PandaStack Sandbox: $0.346
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 each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.173 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
PandaStack Sandbox fits when
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
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