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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Sandbox0

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Sandbox0 runs gVisor 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

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit
Visit siteSandbox0 profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sandbox0: No limit
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
Sandbox0sandbox0.ai

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Sandbox0: $0.120

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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 $0.060 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need snapshots.

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