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Hugging Face Sandboxes vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours
Visit siteHugging Face Sandboxes profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteSF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Pay as you go
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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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 $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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