Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Runloop
Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
- Runloop: $0.634
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 $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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