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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Prime Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Prime Sandboxes costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Prime Sandboxes runs microVMs and has no session limit.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

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

Prime Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit
Visit sitePrime Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Prime Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Prime Sandboxesdocs.primeintellect.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Prime Sandboxes: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Prime Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Prime Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Up to 1,024

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Prime Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Prime Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Prime Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Prime Sandboxes: $0.045
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Prime Sandboxes: $0.090
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Prime Sandboxes: $0.180

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Which 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 $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Prime Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.

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