Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Railway Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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 $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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