Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Sailboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Sailboxes: $0.124

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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 $0.062 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Sailboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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