Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.
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What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface .co
Thunder Sandboxesthundercompute .com
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
- Storage
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Billing
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
- Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
- Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Hugging Face Sandboxes:
- Thunder Sandboxes:
- Snapshots
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
- Thunder Sandboxes: Python
- Integrations
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
- Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
- Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332
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