Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Hugging Face Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 24 hours
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
2 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
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 the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.090 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You use MCP.
- You need snapshots.
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