Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Tenki Sandbox

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: MCP

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

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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 $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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