Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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